“For Brandon Teena” By Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

Were you buried in your favorite slacks,
black cowboy shirt, and cowboy hat?
That’s what the papers said (at first)
Or were you laid to rest in a women’s
flowered print, a “ladies blouse”
as your relatives insisted that
The Lincoln Journal print
In their “correction” on the “facts”
of how you dressed --- alive and dead?

Are any of us what our families pretend?
Our sex lives and the nature of our deaths
reclaimed, revisited, unread
unspeakable what we do in bed
And whom we love and how we dress.
Encountering eternity in our favorite slacks,
cowboy shirts, and vests, and hats.
Confronting eternity undisguised.
Dressed to kill. To die for. Unrevised

1) Based on the poem, what inferences can we make about Brandon Teena’s family? Use details from the text to support your answer.

2)Write a few sentences explaining your understanding or interpretation of these lines:
Confronting eternity undisguised.
Dressed to kill. To die for. Unrevised

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.

what you where bleeping things out

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.