<p>wat bout that squid question that everyones been talking bout, </p>
<p>the choices were something bout</p>
<p>scientists
literary distorts,</p>
<p>but i remember seeing a really good answer thats neither of those, i just cant remember wat i put!</p>
<p>but godot, it was put into that context at that time, it was an entirely new paragraph talking bout her growing up and it was explicit in stating bout her career, so i still think that your answer was incorrect</p>
<p>OFF TOPIC</p>
<p>Anyone take the ACT? I’m think about taking it. I read about some guy who just got perfect scores on both, and I wanna try it. </p>
<p>I think that I’m better suited for the SAT, if there’s a choice to be made. It’s a reasoning test, and I always rely on reasoning, as opposed to just memorization and recall. It’s like this quote I read-“Intelligence appears to allow a man to get by without an education. Education appears to be what allows a man to get by without the use of his intelligence.” That’s not to make any sweeping generalizations. I’m just saying</p>
<p>I originally thought it was the answer involving the writing career, but that just didn’t seem emotionally relevant enough compared to the passage, if you know what I mean. The way the passage was written made it seem like it took some courage or at least a prevalence over reluctance to ask her mother about it (“finally”), which would disagree with the idea that she simply didn’t have a purpose to ask beforehand. Had the word “finally” not been in the sentence, it seems like that would have been correct, as it would just be like the woman approaching any new topic with no connection to her as a writer. But as it was, the action of asking her mother was emotionally charged and therefore called back upon her mother’s declination to discuss her past during the writer’s childhood.</p>
<p>quod erat demonstrandum.</p>
<p>So yea, emotional discrepancy. No idea if any of that made any sense. Hopefully you’ll get my gist.</p>
<p>wait so wat did u put</p>
<p>what yall put for the quesiton, how could u tell the mother felt bad she couldnt tell her anything</p>
<p>Oh right, the one involving the mother’s reluctance to discuss it.</p>
<p>im pretty sure the question asked why she didnt ask about her moms past until now. the answer was her mothers attitude. the answer about her becoming an author explicitly said that she didnt care about her heritage or w/e until she became an author and needed something to write about.</p>
<p>also, im pretty sure that sentence 8 was the one which you could delete.</p>
<p>finally, was the anwer to the insertion something about tom cruise not being able to escape the pain, or was it “we have a lot in common, it turns out”</p>
<p>It was not “we have a lot in common,” since the only thing they both had in common was that they had braces, so it would not have made sense.</p>
<p>Which one was Sentence 8?</p>
<p>yea your rite doctorx017, which is exactly why it had a literary connotation to it, and it wouldnt be her mothers stifled attitude</p>
<p>let me try to make sense of this question about the mother:
the question asks “why did she not ask her mother about her past until now”</p>
<p>there are two ways of reading this:
<p>if you read it in way #1, you would answer “because she needed material for writing now”
if you read it in way #2, you would answer “because of her mothers attitude”</p>
<p>the question would be quite ambiguous had the answer about her needing material for writing not included the analysis that said “she didnt care about it until she need material” or however it was worded</p>
<p>based on that the answer is…
BECAUSE OF HER MOTHERS ATTITUDE</p>
<p>about the why did the author ask her mother when she was an adult answer…
i believe the complete answer read “her mother’s attitude successfully stifled her interest to do so”. that implies that she had an interest when she was a child, because something happened to it when she was a child.</p>
<p>okay so going back to your two ways…</p>
<p>so 2.) why didnt she ask before, </p>
<p>she asked in the very beginning couldnt get anything cuz of her mother,</p>
<p>so i asked you waht has changed nothing, her mother’s attitude never moved, and that is even indicated that the very end until she gave her those numbers. she was emotional and stuff NEVER said anything…</p>
<p>so what got this girl wanting to kno… because she was writing something and needed information because it was soo freaking interesting!!! </p>
<p>THERE YOU GO, MOTHER"S F’ING ATTITUDE NEVER CHANGED, CUZ SHE WAS SO F;ing EMOTIONAL</p>
<p>anyway the whole point of the passage was that her mother prevented her from learning about the past… and the question said, which of these is “most likely” the reason she didn’t ask until now. just my opinion…</p>
<p>yea aldeswari, then she wouldve asked long before, why now, all of the sudden when i new paragraph starts specifically talking bout a book, why would the thing bout the book be relevant at all thenL???</p>
<p>nmehta4 - i think the change was not of the mother, but of the author. i.e. the author’s change from childhood to adulthood (why she didn’t ask <em>until now</em> - she is an adult <em>now</em>)</p>
<p>Wow, this is becoming violent. Let’s just wait until we get the SAS, mmmkay?</p>
<p>Remember, remember the 5th of… erm… July.</p>
<p>yea but that change occured because of her literary endeavors or w/e</p>
<p>i don’t think so. i think it was because she grew up. but let me get this straight: you’re saying that the answer wasn’t “her mother’s attitude” because she did not have an interest when she was a child? i don’t quite understand your argument</p>
<p>The book is relevant as an impetus. SHe questioned her mother because she needed writing material.</p>