Enigma
Original Source:
"Where she found the time, and still managed to "practically run that big house" and be a straight-A student, the president of her class, a leader in the 4-H program and the Young Methodists League, a skilled rider, an excellent musician (piano, clarinet), an annual winner at the county fair (pastry, preserves, needlework, flower arrangement) - how a girl not yet seventeen could haul such a wagonload, and do so without "brag," with, rather, merely a radiant jauntiness, was an enigma that the community pondered, and solved by saying, "She's got character. Gets it from her old man."
Capote, Truman. In
Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences. New
York: Vintage Books, 1994. Print.
Definition*:
1. a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation.
2. a person of puzzling or contradictory character.
2. a person of puzzling or contradictory character.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something."
"James
Dyson at BrainyQuote." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 9 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jamesdyson509706.html>.
Commentary:
In the original source, Capote describes Nancy Clutter as a puzzling character, a young girl able to achieve astonishing feats at such a young age. In the second source, Dyson calls failure something that occurs to confuse people and make them think of their actions, therefore teaching a lesson so as not to repeat the same mistake the next time.
In the original source, Capote describes Nancy Clutter as a puzzling character, a young girl able to achieve astonishing feats at such a young age. In the second source, Dyson calls failure something that occurs to confuse people and make them think of their actions, therefore teaching a lesson so as not to repeat the same mistake the next time.
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