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Yeah, I put this.</p>
<p>^■■■■■ Necroblood right in the beginning of the passage (before line 5) it said that before the dinner he felt distanced from the girl. Then it said right under that that this was like the way he felt with his cousins, with them only having a blood connection.</p>
<p>infinite it was that she wanted to play music she liked.</p>
<p>@ necroblood, i don’t understand why you refuse to believe you could possibly be wrong. i suggest YOU read the book and find the passage because cousins in india wasn’t “nowhere to be found” and was in fact explicitly mentioned at the beginning of the passage</p>
<p>i read another story by jhumpa lihiri, the author of the passage, and they are all about how bengali people in america alwyas feel a connection with each other</p>
<p>Why was the girl reluctant to play Jingle Bells?</p>
<p>Did you guys get routine and boring for something? And she didn’t play Jingle Bells because she wanted to play stuff she was interested in.</p>
<p>what were some of hte other choices for the jingle bells one?</p>
<p>^damn I got that wrong. hopefully the curve is good</p>
<p>^agreed cuz she liked playing mozart. ok but what was the answer to the last q for that passage where it said “what is symbolic about the last 3 lines of the passage?” the last 3 lines describe her playing jingle bells for hours.
i put that it’s symbolic cuz she’s irritated about having to do it…but iwasn’t sure of myself on that one</p>
<p>^Yes her life was much less routine and boring than her journal suggested.</p>
<p>massgirl I thought the question was what did the girl sitting with her back to the room mean, and that was because her mother and the others forced the situation upon her and she was unhappy.</p>
<p>^^ Huh? Symbolic?</p>
<p>@billabong628 I specifically remember her saying she was ashamed of her journal writings because her life had more in it. Like her and her friend hoarding candy from the other girls and her being murderously envious of someone’s shoes. I definitely didn’t get routine and boring.</p>
<p>I think you guys are confusing questions. The question being referred to asked what he “compared his relationship to Blah with in the passage” and the answer was to his cousins in India. In the passage he was describing their relationship, and he compared it to…tada…his cousins in India, a familiarity, but at least with his cousins he had the blood relation to justify it. </p>
<p>Necro I believe you are talking about the question that asked something to do with his parents, and the answer was their “Bengali friends” or something similar.</p>
<p>The diary/journal passage was ridiculously hard. I got so confused.</p>
<p>btw i think it was because she was irritated^</p>
<p>^ i think there were two questions</p>
<p>less routine and boring
and
ashamed of the lack of creativity or something</p>
<p>^Anapo I think you misread the question. I agree 100% with your post since the question was asking “compared to her journal, the girls life was much less what”</p>
<p>yeah i’m pretty sure the word they used was “symbolic” for that question, weird i know. does anyone remember what you put for it? it was the last question for that passage</p>
<p>Linger, do you remember the question for routine and boring?</p>
<p>can someone start making a list? you will be my best cc friend forever!</p>
<p>Anapo:</p>
<p>Compared to her journal entries, [author’s] real life was less what:</p>
<p>routine and boring</p>