Read this passage from "the first seven years." which detail in the passage gives feld a clue that max is not very interested in meeting
miriam?
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"i am a businessman," the shoemaker abruptly said to conceal his embarrassment, "so i will explain you right away why i talk to you. i
have a girl, my daughter miriam-she is nineteen-a very nice girl and also so pretty that everybody looks on her when she passes by in
the street. she is smart, always with a book, and i thought to myself that a boy like you, an educated boy-i thought maybe you will be
interested sometime to meet a girl like this." he laughed a bit when he had finished and was tempted to say more but had the good sens
not to.
max stared down like a hawk. for an uncomfortable second he was silent, then he asked, "did you say nineteen? "
"yes."
"would it be all right to inquire if you have a picture of her? "
"just a minute." the shoemaker went into the store and hastily returned with a snapshot that max held up to the light.
"she's all right," he said.
feld waited.
"and is she sensible--not the flighty kind? "
"she is very sensible."
after another short pause, max said it was okay with him if he met her.
"here is my telephone," said the shoemaker, hurriedly handing him a slip of paper. "call her up. she comes home from work six o'clock.
max folded the paper and tucked it away into his worn leather wallet.
"about the shoes," he said. "how much did you say they will cost me? "
"did you say nineteen? "

why does the crew join ahab's quest without hesitation?

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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