13. When Rita was giving her graduation speech, she talked about learning an expression that Garfield had told her to look up. What was the expression?
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Answer:
Pyrrhic victory
While helping her with her studies, Garfield had suggested Rita might want to present her essay at the graduation ceremony, and she said she couldn't get in front of all those people. Garfield asked her if she thought it would be a Pyrrhic victory. When she asked what that meant, he told her to look it up. Those of us who don't have a degree in English found out the meaning of the term at the end, as Rita gave her speech following the deaths of Garfield and Cesar. She could barely hold herself together as she explained it meant a victory gained at too great a cost. This was a powerful moment, of course, because Garfield had just gained a Pyrrhic victory of his own. He taught probably the greatest lesson of his recently defunct teaching career, by finally getting it through Cesar's and his boys' heads that their machismo act was empty and ill-fated, but it cost him his own life.
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