Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

Answer:

Although Wang's father shared his good fortune with others, they still turned on him.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The carp illustrate the bond that the teachers and students had with the father of the narrator, and emphasis that they bet him to near death without taking into consideration how close they all were in the past.

The father of the narrator was the school principal; he caught a 21-pound carp the day the narrator, his son, born, and he shared that carp with all the teachers and boarding students. Therefore, the author, Yun Wang, used the carp as a symbol of the close bond the principal had with the ones that beat him.