Why does the old man kill his own son and his father? Explain how this drama is connected with religious belief. (Purgatory).

Instead, the Old Man had to learn how to read from a gamekeeper's wife, and he had to rely on a Catholic curate in order to learn Latin. Eventually, the Old Man had to earn a living as a lowly peddler. So, the Old Man killed his father for what he considers were immoral actions against him and his mother.

Explanation:

even though there may be variations in human emotions over time, the poem “ a contribution to statistics” by wislawa symborska suggests that the only unchangeable characteristic is mortality.

the author poses a distinction between the approximate and non-approximate numbers which correspond to our need for certainty in life and the difficulty of achieving it. our efforts to measure the exact often fail because the world is not always clearly structured .the poem seems to imply   that the only thing that is certain and has an exact number is death.