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help with a quote please!!!!?
what do you think that this quote means?
"from my disemboweled brothers i took three warm livers and baited my hook."(anaya 235).
i kind of have any idea but i look back and it sounds as if it makes no sense. please help!!!! thanks...
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
i have no idea, but it would seem like that in the worst situation (the disemboweled brothers), he/she took something from that bad situation and used it to go on with life. sort of like, "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade".
- 1 decade ago
I'm not sure but maybe knowing what the word disemboweled may help you as it would if it was me.
Definition of Disembowel
Dis`em`bow´el Pronunciation: dÄs`Äm`bou´Äl
v. t. 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
Soon after their death, they are disemboweled.
- Cook.
Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold.
- Thomson.
2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
Related Words
draw, eviscerate, remove, take, take away, withdraw
