Why does the narrator in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” refuse to take the man with the umbrella to the police station? select all that apply. a. he thinks the police would be just as likely to arrest him. b. he does not want to be bothered with all the questioning. c. he wants to figure out why the man is hitting him with the umbrella first. bhe does not think the man with the umbrella would last long in prison.

The narrator in Sorrentino’s “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” refuses to take the man with the umbrella to the police station because:

* He thinks the police would be just as likely to arrest him.

* He does not want to be bothered with all the questioning.

Explanation:

The characters in this short story go round and round over the same repetitive behavior cycle, and even when the narrator thinks about several ways to make the other man stop he never does any of them since he finds negative point on doing it, in the case of the police we have this lines in the story “It would have been an unprecedented case. The officer would have looked at me suspiciously, would have asked for my papers, and begin asking embarrassing questions. And he might even have ended up placing me under arrest.”

because of all the immigration, america became one big melting pot. the diversity of cultures from all over the world made america somewhat divided as well. people that immigrated stayed with their kind, and their traditions, while native born americans stayed with their kind and their traditions. normally, people born in american scorned the immigrants as well. the new religions also divided america. in summary, it took away from the american culture and identified america as the "melting pot."

i wonder if it is possible to place reagans testimony and paragragh 18, so we can compare and contract the ideas in the text.