Question

guided practice
read this passage from \the first seven years.\
watching him, the shoemaker’s anger diminished. his teeth were on edge with pity for the man, and his eyes grew moist. how strange and sad that a refugee, a grown man, bald and old with his miseries, who had by the skin of his teeth escaped hitler’s incinerators, should fall in love, when he had got to america, with a girl less than half his age. day after day, for five years he had sat at his bench, cutting and hammering away, waiting for the girl to become a woman, unable to ease his heart with speech, knowing no protest but desperation.
\ugly i didn’t mean,\ he said half aloud.
then he realized that what he had called ugly was not sobel but miriam’s life if she married him. he felt for his daughter a strange
which detail in the passage states the point at which feld has an epiphany?
a. watching him, the shoemaker’s anger diminished. his teeth were on edge with pity for the man, and his eyes grew moist.
b. sobel was standing by the window reading, and it was curious that when he read he looked young.
c. then he realized that what he had called ugly was not sobel but miriam’s life if she married him.
d. day after day, for five years he had sat at his bench, cutting and hammering away, waiting for the girl to become a woman, unable to ease his heart with speech, knowing no protest but desperation.

Explanation:

An epiphany is a sudden, profound realization. In the passage, this moment occurs when Feld understands his mistake in judging Sobel and recognizes the negative future he was pushing Miriam toward, which is the key revelatory detail in option C. The other options describe pity, an observation about Sobel's appearance, and Sobel's routine, none of which are the epiphany itself.

Answer:

C. Then he realized that what he had called ugly was not Sobel but Miriam's life if she married him.