<p>I understand now that this complex set of questions had always been there in my mind when I put the microphones and the tape recorder into my shoulder bag. I had always tried to have some conception of the slavery that had brought people from West Africa to the United States, even if I hadn't seen, symbolically, that when I opened the box decorated with pictures of musicians and instruments inside it would be the next box, illustrated with old engravings of slave ships. I had come to Africa to find a kind of song, to find a kind of music and the people who performed it. But nothing can be taken from a culture without considering its context.</p>
<p>The author presents the final sentence as a
a. learned lesson
b. grim admonition</p>
<p>Why is the answer A and not B?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>An admonition is something one authoritatively dictates. The last sentence is more of a learned lesson, since he came to that conclusion by learning things. Also, the final sentence is not “grim.”</p>
<p>…You think it is a grim warning?</p>
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<p>The author is saying the he/she now knows that:</p>
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<p>Before he/she came to Africa, he/she did not know this. Now she does. </p>
<p>=lesson.</p>
<p>Couldn’t it be interpreted as a warning as well that one should not take something out of a culture without its context?</p>
<p>O
Maybe, but it’s not grim</p>
<p>Always pick the safer answer…grim is a bit extreme like garfield said</p>
<p>Like everyone said, it’s the grim part of the B that makes it the wrong answer.</p>
<p>you are really evil inside if you interpreted that as grim.</p>