Mafatu has two reasons for wanting to kill the wild boar in Call It Courage. What are they? Please real answers! Needed before August 31st! Please, both reasons too. I would very much like...
Mafatu has two reasons for wanting to kill the wild boar in Call It Courage. What are they?
Please real answers! Needed before August 31st! Please, both reasons too. I would very much like that. Thank you.
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Mafatu wants to kill the wild boar first of all because he is hungry, and second, because he wants to feel the pride and glory of having killed such a formidable beast all by himself.
As Mafatu is surveying the island on which he has landed, a wild boar startles him as it crashes through the undergrowth nearby. A "smile cross(es) his face" as he imagines the thought of having the pig for supper. He thinks about
"pig roasted underground in the hot oven...
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