2022_심화영어

What is the implied meaning of the locked door and the people who occasionally come to the room? Q3 frighten jug hastily whining calf belly protrude New Words What are some possible causes of the child’s condition? Q4 The door is locked; nobody will come. Except that sometimes the door rattles terribly and opens, and a person, or several people, are there. One of them may come in and kick the child to make it stand up. The others never come close, but peer in at it with frightened, disgusted eyes. The food bowl and the water jug are hastily filled, the door is locked; the eyes disappear. The people at the door never say anything, but the child can remember sunlight and its mother’s voice, and it sometimes speaks. “I will be good,” it says. “Please, let me out. I will be good!” They never answer. The child used to scream for help at night, and cry a good deal, but now it only makes a kind of whining, “eh-haa, eh-haa,” and it speaks less and less often. It is so thin there are no calves to its legs; its belly protrudes; it lives on a half bowl of corn meal and grease a day. It is naked. They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, while others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, 144 Special Lesson