1. Considering Ruth’s upbringing and experiences in life, why do you think religion is so important to her?

2. Discuss Ruth’s father Tateh. What type of person was he? What impact did he have on his household and family?

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1.At the age of 7, the trouble-making Ruth became too much of a handful for his busy parents. Routinely caught wandering the dockyards, drinking, chewing tobacco and taunting local police officers, his parents finally decided he needed more discipline than they could give him. Ruth's family sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a Catholic orphanage and reformatory that became Ruth's home for the next 12 years. Ruth particularly looked up to a monk named Brother Matthias, who became a father figure to the young boy.

 Ruth's father was "short, dark, hairy, and gruff." Ruth says he was nobody you'd want to fool with and that he was "hard as a rock." She does not describe him as loving or warm.

Though he chastised "the liberal class who consider religion as merely a ... his faith and that his religious upbringing remained important to him..

Explanation: My name is Ruth. :)

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