<span>Throughout the book Lily is going through a major spiritual transformation (just like the actual author). This causes her to begin with anger and hostility and to grow into a more understanding and forgiving person. Lily runs away from her bigoted home and is forced to make this spiritual transformation, which she does.</span>
The X symbol looks too much like the multiplication symbol, it also makes using it as a variable more confusing.
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The compatibility of a person’s temperament with his surrounding environment is referred to as “goodness of fit.”
Some temperaments and environments seem to naturally fit together, while others do not.
There are two types of “Goodness of Fit:”
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how that trait interacts with the environment
how it interacts with the people in that environment.
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Any trait in and of itself is not a problem; rather, it is the interaction that determines the “acceptability” of that trait.