"You ought not to think an hour upon the matter, but to spring to action at once."
The purpose of the words "hour" and "spring" is:
A) Most of the sentences contain comma splices.
A comma splice is the use of a comma to join two independent clauses. The comma is followed by a conjunction.
Two independent clauses:
1) You ought not to think an hour upon the matter.
2) You ought to spring to action at once.
conjunction used is BUT.
For him, the ship filled with oil means pride and status. Through questions similar to yours, we can see that you are referring to "Ile" written by Eugene O'Neill.
By reading this text, we can see that:
- Captain Keeney, his wife, and some sailors travel on a ship to find whales from which they can extract the ile, which is a type of oil of great economic value.
- However, the ship ends up trapped in a sea covered with ice, which leaves everyone very discouraged and very likely to abandon the search for the ile.
- However, Captain Keeney does not agree with this dismay, nor with his wife's attempts to abandon the search for the whales.
He shows that returning with the ship full of ile (oil) is synonymous with honor for him and is what maintains his social status, as he always returns home with the ship full of oil.
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A). Becasue anti-semitism was very pervasive in german society at the time
