1. Considering Ruth’s upbringing and experiences in life, why do you think religion is so important to her?

2. Discuss Ruth’s father Tateh. What type of person was he? What impact did he have on his household and family?

Please help.

1.At the age of 7, the trouble-making Ruth became too much of a handful for his busy parents. Routinely caught wandering the dockyards, drinking, chewing tobacco and taunting local police officers, his parents finally decided he needed more discipline than they could give him. Ruth's family sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a Catholic orphanage and reformatory that became Ruth's home for the next 12 years. Ruth particularly looked up to a monk named Brother Matthias, who became a father figure to the young boy.

 Ruth's father was "short, dark, hairy, and gruff." Ruth says he was nobody you'd want to fool with and that he was "hard as a rock." She does not describe him as loving or warm.

Though he chastised "the liberal class who consider religion as merely a ... his faith and that his religious upbringing remained important to him..

Explanation: My name is Ruth. :)

dick

explanation:

today we'd use social media to quickly spread a controversial idea, but in the eighteenth century, the printed pamphlet was highly effective. and thomas paine took full advantage of it. on january 9, 1776, when paine published his pamphlet, "common sense," he wanted to push the american people toward independence from britain. it ultimately ignite the american revolution. thomas paine argued that the monarchy was evil and should be rejected as a form of government. to underscore his point, he cited the bible to argue his case -- in judges 8: 22-23: "the israelites said to gideon, 'rule over us, you and your son and your ' gideon told them, 'i will not rule over you. the lord will rule over you'" (nrsv).