Answer: Option <span>d) He’s devastated that he cannot marry her.</span>
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Answer:
I approve of Tinashe making his own choice, disregarding his family's opinion because choosing a career should always be a decision based on personal abilities and interests. There´s no point in him becoming a language teacher if he´s not good at it and he doesn´t want to follow that path.
However, I think he might be confused as to what type of training he would need to become a plumber. Although it´s a skilled job, plumbing requires skills that are usually acquired through a plumbing apprenticeship that usually lasts around four years.
Explanation:
The question refers to Tinashe, an 18-year-old Grade 12 student whose family wants him to go to university and become a language teacher, even though he does not do well in languages. What he want´s to do is go to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) to qualify as a plumber.
Gogol is best known for his use of irony, hyperbole, and absurdity to create humor and a sense of existential weariness. In some of his works, like <em>The Nose, Diary of a Madman, </em>and even in his unfinished novel, <em>Dead Souls, </em>he famously takes advantage of a single element, like a nose that has lost its owner, the royal ravings of an office clerk, or the business behind recollecting dead souls, respectively, and extrapolates this element to make it englobe and define his fictional characters, this then puts the characters in very absurd situations that, even though they cause hilarity, leave the reader with a sense of dread and even horror, the irony being that, though existence be dreadful, it is, nonetheless, comical to a point of absurdity.
