<p>I am not entirely sure as to why A is the correct answer, but none of the other answers seem to fit the context of the story. The only reasonable explanation I could think of for the answer being A was that the passage talks about what kinds of things the narrator’s mother did in China and how she has adapted to the lifestyle of their new homeland while her parents are still having trouble. For example, the narrator can speak perfect English while her parents still have trouble speaking the language. Besides this reference, there is nothing I saw to indicate that she grew apart from the cultural tradition of her parents. Maybe the reference to the embroidered cloth? C is wrong because there is nothing to indicate in the passage that the author was looking through her mother’s perspective. Although she does talk about her mother’s experiences in Irvine, she does not go as far as to explain how her mother perceives Irvine. I probably just confused you even more!</p>
I argued in my mind that she’s seeing her mother’s perspective in that she understands the unfamiliarity of her mother’s perception of Irvine and the wistfulness that her mother feels about China.</p>
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lol, could you provide explanation, Mr. Greed?</p>
<p>Throughout the whole passage, the narrator talks about how her mother still misses China, her homeland and childhood. However, the narrator would not know how her mother feels because she grew up in Irvine. So based on this info, you know that the narrator can not connect to her parents’ origins because she grew up in Canada. Also in the beginning, the narrator talks about her and her family’s everyday life and routines. Then she branches out in saying how she felt like her parents were in an isolated world because they were not familiar with the new language and lifestyle outside of their shop. Therefore, the narrator grew apart from her cultural traditions by the end.</p>
<p>At beginning, she talks about how she enjoys chinese culture, in the middle, she starts to describe ways in which she changed like speaking english without an accent and dreamed in english.</p>
<p>To get these right you need to summarize the passage yourself.</p>
<p>Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s development over the course of the passage?</p>
<p>so…
What happens to the narrator over the course? She describes her parents then starts describing how she started to learn english. You need to get a theme and get specific evidence. You cant really find that for any other choice. Heres why C is wrong. </p>
<p>(C) She begins to view the inhabitants of Irvine from her mother’s perspective.</p>
<p>Okay so what is her mothers perspective? Its that shes living among strangers see end of pg 48. The narrator actually focuses on the mothers views on china and the narrator specifically mentions how he grew apart from him parents, See end of 49-50 ( I found a home in Irvine) … did the narrators mom do this? nope. Therefore its wrong on two fronts </p>
<p>She adopts/assimilates as seen in pg 48 2nd para. This is unlike her parents (in same para)</p>
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