Question

IV.
What is meant by
b.
He asked the doctors to remove the tip and, with the help of his father, worked on making his
hands stronger than ever before.

ii. In what other ways did Tommy Caldwell's father help him?

iii. Why did Tommy Caldwell need to make 'his hands stronger than ever before?​

Answer 1

Answer:

One day, I was building a platform for our new washer and dryer. The cracked and slanted concrete floor needed to be shimmed to make it flat. Instead of buying shims I decided I could make some by ripping two-by-fours with the table saw. I gathered a handful of one-foot lengths and headed outside.

As I fed the pieces lengthwise, a two-by-four shot from the table into the hillside like an arrow. I switched off the saw and noticed a few drops of liquid on the table’s black surface. I raised my left hand. Blood burbled up from the stump of a finger like water from a leaky drinking fountain. I saw the white bony stub of my index finger, the lower joint above the knuckle, some jagged flesh, and what must have been a tendon or ligament.

Panic flooded my mind: How can I climb without a left index finger?