Question

I really don't understand this :( I was able to complete the other questions, but this one is so hard!

1. All of the selections in this unit address the concept of self-knowledge in some way. Pick two of the selections and explain how they explore the ways in which characters either develop self-knowledge or their knowledge of themselves changes.
( The short stories I read were The Bet, Star Food, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and Two Tramps In Mud Time.)

Answer 1

witch ones di u like best pick 2

Answer 2

The Bet and Everything That Rises Must Converge :D Thank you so much for your help!!! I will try to give you a medal.. I don't know how to work this yet

Answer 3

or witch ones were the easyest

Answer 4

ur welcome

Answer 5

so the questions askes you to descibe/explaine how the charecters gained knowladge in the stories

Answer 6

or how hey developed self knowladge

Answer 7

Here's "The Bet" www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml

Answer 8

This question is sooo confusing

Answer 9

let me try to put it in simpler words wat grade r u in?

Answer 10

10th

Answer 11

oh ok im in 8th but ill still try

Answer 12

name the charechters in each story and describe them a little bit breifly

Answer 13

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

Answer 14

Sorry I am trying to get all of the info... please give me a minute or two :D

Answer 15

thts ok take ur time

Answer 16

In "The Bet" an old banker is hosting a party and he is discussing the death penalty and being sentenced to life. He'd rather take the death penalty while a young lawyer opposes to that.
"Both are equally immoral," observed one of the guests, "for they both have the same object - to take away life. The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to."
Among the guests was a young lawyer, a young man of five-and-twenty. When he was asked his opinion, he said:
"The death sentence and the life sentence are equally immoral, but if I had to choose between the death penalty and imprisonment for life, I would certainly choose the second. To live anyhow is better than not at all."
A lively discussion arose. The banker, who was younger and more nervous in those days, was suddenly carried away by excitement; he struck the table with his fist and shouted at the young man:
"It's not true! I'll bet you two million you wouldn't stay in solitary confinement for five years."
"If you mean that in earnest," said the young man, "I'll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years."

Answer 17

HURRY UP I DONT HAVE ALL DAY jk lol take ur time

Answer 18

The old banker is the one who bet two million

Answer 19

did u get this from a website

Answer 20

ok so in that how did the banker get smarter? how did the young man get smarter?

Answer 21

The story is on the web

Answer 22

oh ok

Answer 23

The young lawyer ends up dying in prison: "At the table a man unlike ordinary people was sitting motionless. He was a skeleton with the skin drawn tight over his bones, with long curls like a woman's and a shaggy beard. His face was yellow with an earthy tint in it, his cheeks were hollow, his back long and narrow, and the hand on which his shaggy head was propped was so thin and delicate that it was dreadful to look at it. His hair was already streaked with silver, and seeing his emaciated, aged-looking face, no one would have believed that he was only forty."

Answer 24

"When the banker had read this he laid the page on the table, kissed the strange man on the head, and went out of the lodge, weeping. At no other time, even when he had lost heavily on the Stock Exchange, had he felt so great a contempt for himself. When he got home he lay on his bed, but his tears and emotion kept him for hours from sleeping."

Answer 25

dang tht has a LOT of discription

Answer 26

now in ur own words explain how the lawyer gained knowledge got smarter

Answer 27

In “The Bet,” the banker believed that being sentenced to life was way worse than the death penalty. He bet a young lawyer two million dollars that he wouldn't be able to handle five years in prison. The young lawyer wanted to prove him wrong by stating that he could handle fifteen years in prison. As the day neared for the fifteen years to be up, the baker went to check on the young man (who would be forty), only to find his motionless body sitting there. I believed he felt horrible for betting the poor man money over freedom.

Answer 28

ok good u could also say that the lawyer knew that the banker was carless with money so he would bet the lawyer and the lawyer knew he would win

Answer 29

That makes perfect sense, but I just don't understand the ending, "Next morning the watchmen ran in with pale faces, and told him they had seen the man who lived in the lodge climb out of the window into the garden, go to the gate, and disappear. The banker went at once with the servants to the lodge and made sure of the flight of his prisoner. To avoid arousing unnecessary talk, he took from the table the writing in which the millions were renounced, and when he got home locked it up in the fireproof safe." Did he fake his death or did he become a ghost?

Answer 30

he most likely faked his death witch is stupid because then he wouldent get the 2mill he was promised

Answer 31

Ok great! Thank you so much! I will give you a medal and I became your fan :D

Answer 32

thx i became ur fan 2 glad i could help if u need anything else message me there is a little envolope in the uppe left hand side thats how u messag me just type my name into the box labeled TO

Answer 33

Ok. Will do. :D

Answer 34

just so u kno i have no idea ow to give meadles out either