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Read "The Pie", by Gary Soto.
Symbolically, what's significant about young Gary's sticky face, dirty fingers, and desire to find some water toward the end of the story?
Answer:
Gary's sticky face and dirty fingers symbolize the guilt he feels for the sin he committed (dirty hands represent guilt for wrongdoing).
His desire for water represents his guilt as he wants to wash his sin away.
Explanation:
Soto's stealing the pie signifies his loss of innocence.
The theme of the story is that, if we have a conscience, stealing will make us feel guilty.
Answer:
D
<em>The narrator describes their love with images of pain and death to imply that their love is doomed to end in tragedy.</em>
Explanation:
This was part of the reason why the King tried to kill them later even though they escaped.
Even though option D is also related to Modernism and could be related to the excerpt, option C seems to be the correct one: It conveys the idea of isolation from modern life.
Modernist were called "the lost generation" because of their search for meaning among the fragments of modern life. In the excerpt, the words "lonely men" seem to address the theme of isolation and alienation in society. While everyone seems to have a role to perform in modern life, that does not mean they have found their true identity. Some sort of value seems to have been lost and, with it, men lost themselves. Modernism is characterized by the search of such value.
