1. (a) The Devil offers Tom Walker Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) Tom first refused because he wanted to talk with his wife about it first.
2. (a) Tom’s wife disappears in the forest and later on Tom finds her apron with a heart and a liver in it. (b) You can learn Tom did not care for his wife and was very much pleased with the loss of his wife.
3. (a) Tom agrees to become an usher for the Devil if he got Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) As the story progress, Tom starts to go to church and carries a Bible with him at all times because he wants God to save him from his sins and the deal with the Devil.
4. The narrator calls Tom a violent churchgoer because he would pray loudly and he calls other church members out for their sins. (b) Tom’s approach to religion is similar to his approach to financial dealing because both were to get out of a bad situation (to get away from his wife and poverty and the other was to get away from the Devil).
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(a) I think Tom Walker deserved his fate because he cheated many people just for money and he knew what he was getting into when he made the deal with the Devil. (b) I would feel more sympathy for Tom if he sold his soul for knowledge because you can help people with the knowledge you gained and solve problems for the towns’ people.
6. Washington Irving might say that effect of avarice on a society can divide a community into war, it can lead it into failure in the society, and people should be more charitable than
2. (a) Tom’s wife disappears in the forest and later on Tom finds her apron with a heart and a liver in it. (b) You can learn Tom did not care for his wife and was very much pleased with the loss of his wife.
3. (a) Tom agrees to become an usher for the Devil if he got Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) As the story progress, Tom starts to go to church and carries a Bible with him at all times because he wants God to save him from his sins and the deal with the Devil.
4. The narrator calls Tom a violent churchgoer because he would pray loudly and he calls other church members out for their sins. (b) Tom’s approach to religion is similar to his approach to financial dealing because both were to get out of a bad situation (to get away from his wife and poverty and the other was to get away from the Devil).
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(a) I think Tom Walker deserved his fate because he cheated many people just for money and he knew what he was getting into when he made the deal with the Devil. (b) I would feel more sympathy for Tom if he sold his soul for knowledge because you can help people with the knowledge you gained and solve problems for the towns’ people.
6. Washington Irving might say that effect of avarice on a society can divide a community into war, it can lead it into failure in the society, and people should be more charitable than