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not necessary, she can be last 18 years humiliated
:))))

2007-10-02 08:59:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

NO - he could have met the people who are humiliating him when he was older. Or something could have happened to him when he was younger - like some kind of scarring or disability - that makes people laugh at him now. Pax -


After all, the 18 year old was the target their humiliation for his entire life and after a while, he grew used to it. .

That would express what you are trying to say much better.

Pax - C

2007-09-28 18:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0 2

No, just that the humiliations had been going on for 18 years.

2007-09-29 03:26:26 · answer #3 · answered by Barbara E 4 · 0 2

The sentence says that someone has been humiliating him for 18 years. It doesn't necessarily mean that he is 18.

But, if the person that has been humiliating him is a parent or an older sibling, then you would assume that the person has known him his entire life, meaning that he is 18 years old.

However you interpret it, it's a very poorly written sentence.

2007-09-28 17:31:14 · answer #4 · answered by Stacia T 3 · 4 2

No--this kind of thing is fairly common in stories and novels and drives me crazy. Even when the writer means, in this case, that he's 18 yrs old--children can't even become embarrassed until they are old enough to recognize what humiliation is. This kind of sentence simply illustrates how little the author understand about children in general.

2007-09-28 23:49:59 · answer #5 · answered by AllGrownUp 3 · 0 2

Well, first of all, your grammar's not correct:

"After all, he was used to their humiliations, having suffered (or endured) them for 18 years."

and no - he wouldn't be 18, since he could hardly recall any humiliations during the first 2 to 3 years of his life. Moreover, those humiliations could have happened during ANY 18 year period of his life.
I'd put him at about 22 or 23 - if the humiliations were administered by those who raised him.

2007-09-28 17:31:53 · answer #6 · answered by johnslat 7 · 3 2

Yes! Read over and over your get it! it says. "After all, he was used to their humiliations for 18 years."

2007-09-28 17:26:37 · answer #7 · answered by Harriet W 1 · 0 2

no, only that he has been humiliated for eighteen years. if he had been humiliated from the day he was born, he wouldnt know it because most people dont remember past when they were four, or maybe older.

2007-09-28 17:34:45 · answer #8 · answered by i love ((_crayons_))> 3 · 0 2

No. He could have met "them" when he was five. In which case, he'd be 23. We have to know when he met them. Perhaps in context, with other clues, you might know that he's 18. Also, the sentence is grammatically incorrect.

2007-09-28 17:29:10 · answer #9 · answered by Lauren Em 3 · 4 2

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