2022_심화영어독해와작문

97 creep wander tangle-haired degradation filth Find words which mean: • to look at something closely to learn more about it: • not usual or common; not customary: Figurative Language Q7 Why does Cortlandt Van Duyckink describe the young man as “a living rebuke”? What might the young man symbolize in the story? Inference Q8 Why did Cortlandt Van Duyckink feel happier after shaking hands with Ikey Snigglefritz? Down Delancey slowly crept the pale-gray auto. Away from it wandered groups of wondering, tangle-haired, barefooted, unwashed children. It stopped before a crazy brick structure, stinking and uneven. Van Duyckink stopped to examine at a better perspective one of the leaning walls. Down the steps of the building came a young man who seemed to perfectly represent its degradation, filth and misery—a narrow-chested, pale, unpleasant young man, smoking a cigarette. Obeying a sudden impulse, Van Duyckink stepped out and warmly grasped the hand of what seemed to him a living rebuke. “I want to know you people,” he said, sincerely. “I am going to help you as much as I can. We shall be friends.” As the auto crept careful ly away Cor t l andt Van Duyckink fe l t an unaccustomed glow about his heart. He was near to being a happy man. He had shaken the hand of Ikey Snigglefritz. 5 10