<p>EXACTLY ALTRUIST, she questioned her mother b/c she needed writiing materlial</p>
<p>Online score report 6/21</p>
<p>dang. this must be one of the longest sat threads ever. is it because school’s out or because the june sat questions are highly debatable?</p>
<p>Hmm…what were the other choices?</p>
<p>is that not precisely the answer i have been saying</p>
<p>altruist made clear wat i have been saying which makes the answer correct</p>
<p>The qualifiers “best” and “most nearly” change things a bit, which is why I want to know what the other choices were. It’s not just about what works. It’s about what works best.</p>
<p>it seems as if this SAT IS highly debatable.
i put that the girl, as an adult/writer, finally became interested in her mother’s past. I guess I didn’t choose that her mother stifled her because although the girl seemed to have some interest as a child, she was primarily indifferent. Don’t you remember a question for the same passage that asked something like “What resulted from the mother’s reluctance to share her past” and the answer was E) the girl’s indifference as a child
(i totally reworded that)
so yeah, I finally picked that she became interested based on that previous question that I picked indifference for.
anyone remember this??</p>
<p>oh and what was that whole thing about
A) mother’s manner of speaking
B) cynicism blah blah
and some other choices…i picked A.</p>
<p>wasnt the mothers reluctance due to her terrorizing past? it gave evidence in the text when it cited the foot bindings.</p>
<p>the main point of the passage is that the author’s mother is reluctant to talk about her past. the author says that when she was a child she didn’t know anything about her past, she says that she was “stuck between the united states, china, and japan” or something like that. i still think the most relevant answer is “the mother’s attitude successfully stifled her interest to do so”. stifled does not imply that the author actually had an interest when she was a child, to stifle is “to suppress” or keep from rising in the first place. so regardless of the fact that she may have asked her for material, that is not the “most likely” reason that she did not ask her until now because her mother’s attitude is highly emphasized in the passage while her writing career is nearly if not completely nonexistant.</p>
<p>when u say mother’s reluctance SZ… do u mean the question where it was like how could you tell she felt sorry for her daughter because she couldnt tell her anything?</p>
<p>nmehta4, what evidence do you have to support your answer? btw if you missed it look at my post on page 90.</p>
<p>O yeah</p>
<p>Why DIDN’T the mother really talk about it? One choice said that her past was too traumatic to remember. There was another that I think said that she just didn’t want to talk about it. I figured that she had no problem remembering, because she eventually gave up the numbers.</p>
<p>the main point of the passage is that the author’s mother is reluctant to talk about her past. the author says that when she was a child she didn’t know anything about her past, she says that she was “stuck between the united states, china, and japan” or something like that. i still think the most relevant answer is “the mother’s attitude successfully stifled her interest to do so”. stifled does not imply that the author actually had an interest when she was a child, to stifle is “to suppress” or keep from rising in the first place. so regardless of the fact that she may have asked her for material, that is not the “most likely” reason that she did not ask her until now because her mother’s attitude is highly emphasized in the passage while her writing career is nearly if not completely nonexistant.</p>
<p>I’m off to rest. Peace to most (excludes vicious criminals). Don’t foget to adopt a Vegan diet. You’ll live longer and healthier. You’ll also be helping out the animals and the environment.</p>
<p>Fare well</p>
<p>it’s definitely “looking for a subject as a writer”. When they ask, you should only be using the lines that they provided. In those lines, nothing was said about her past or anything like that. Only that she was looking for a topic to write about, and consequently asked her mother to divulge about her past.</p>
<p>Also, have we agreed that both squid passages suggest that “scientists havent found a living one”. I put both passages suggest that authors embellish the reputation of the squid, but i could be wrong</p>
<p>lol look at all the evidence ive put, the question is what evidence do you have…</p>
<p>two things that altruist made a good point of:</p>
<p>why would the novel or w/e have any relevance at all to the story if it weren’t because it is wat actaully interestted the girl because she was writing something… you fail to counter that argument. </p>
<p>and you fail to realize that her mother stifled or “supressed” in your words from telling her anything BEFORE. something had to change, and the way your answerign the q uestion it is as if it happened out of thin air. the NOVEL was the LINK</p>
<p>cory123 - the question doesn’t provide any lines to look at. it merely asks “Which of the following is most likely the reason the author didn’t ask her mother about her past until now?”</p>
<p>To say that the reason the daughter never asked until now is “to look for a subject as a writer” would imply that she had absolutely no interest in her mother’s past until now (and she still probably has no interest, except to gather material for her book). This is clearly not supported by the passage. The daughter *was<a href=“as%20evidenced%20by%20the%20paragraph%20on%20feeling%20like%20an%20alien%20or%20stranger%20among%20relatives%20and%20wanting%20to%20know%20more”>/i</a> and is interested in her mother’s past. She would not be pestering her mother even at her bedside and bothering to “return” the calls from her mother’s friends from the past if she were not genuinely interested in finding out more about her mother. The mother’s attitude had successfully stifled her desire to dig into the past, until now, when she became an adult and she summoned the courage to finally ask her mother. The mother still retains the same attitude (more or less), but the daughter is able to overcome that now.</p>
<p>cory123,</p>
<p>It’s not true that one always only looks at the lines referenced. In fact, the lines above and below the reference are usually relevant as well. In that particular question, a good portion of the rest of the passage is quite relevant to answering the question. The question was not asking about a specific quotation, in which case one does have to ultimately focus on the lines and text referenced.</p>
<p>oh and also, what about the encyclopedia quiestion about future generations and what the line suggest about them. Did everyone else put “overestimating the breadth of their knowledge”? I might have chosen “growing indifference for learning about the past” or something like that. Did anyone else choose that…or am i alone on this one lol</p>