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Fri 8 Feb, 2013 02:24 am
The trip to Cyprus accelerated my weakening. I could no longer turn my body. I could no longer hold things in my right hand. My left foot for the first time entirely buckled when I put weight on it without my brace. My speech was so slurred I was reluctant to talk.
"So sad," I slurred, as I sat with John, looking over the decrepit monastery.
"It’s 7:40," he replied, misunderstanding my remark.
In this paragraph, why did the man reply a time? What did he mistake the author's words for?
@Justin Xu,
Quote:In this paragraph, why did the man reply a time?
Because the man who gave the time (John) did not understand what the other person meant when they said "so sad".
Quote:What did he mistake the author's words for?
John thought the other person was asking him (John) for the time, and the other person was expressing their displeasure with the monastery, and not asking about the time.
@XXSpadeMasterXX,
Thank you. I thought something might sound similar to "so sad", but "what's the time" seems not the anwser. Perhaps the author slurred too much.
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