From the text, "Tolerance is the word used most often when this kind of coexistence succeeds, but tolerance is a vanilla-pudding word. standing for little more than the allowance of letting others live unremarked and " (Quindlen 15). Look up the word tolerance in the dictionary. With that definition in mind, what do you think this portion of the text means? What do you think the author is trying to say?

c, his tragic flaw to cause his downfall

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d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.