Answer:
Siddhartha returned to an earlier stage of life when he decided not to go after his son, being alone again.
Explanation:
"Siddharta" is a book written by Hermann Hesse. This book is inspired by the teachings of Buddha Siddhartha Gautama and brings topics such as the human search for emotional control, the encounter of the spiritual dimension and stability of the human mind.
In the book Siddharta is a young man very wise and admired by people, but he feels unhappy because he cannot find spiritual fulfillment, he becomes a disciple of Buddha and learns that this fullness comes with the experiences and the way we deal with them. With that, he decides to follow his destiny and have his own experiences.
Over the years, and after a long time alone, Siddharta is presented with a son. However, father and son were never very close and his son decides to leave, which makes Siddharta very sad and spiritually agonized, but after reflecting he decides not to go after his son and regress to the previous stage of life.
The underlined participial phrase which is "continuing to stir the soup", is placed incorrectly. The correct sentence should be, "The phone rang and my mother, continuing to stir the soup, answered it". Why is it misplaced? Putting the participial phrase at the beginning of the sentence makes it a dangling modifier because it does not clearly state the specific word it modifies. In the corrected sentence, it is clear now who is being described with the phrase "continuing to stir the soup", which is the "mother".
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby)--and now she's dead.
Jared can't count on his mom to stay sober and stick around to take care of him. He can't rely on his dad to pay the bills and support his new wife and step-daughter. Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family's life, even look out for his elderly neighbours. But he struggles to keep everything afloat...and sometimes he blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he's the son of a trickster, that he isn't human. Mind you, ravens speak to him--even when he's not stoned.
Answer:
Its an idiom.
Explanation:
It means he did whatever he could to get what he wanted.
