1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Alex777 [14]
2 years ago
7

How does being locked inside the house when she was younger affect the narrator's mother in Safety of Numbers? (Read paragraphs

58-65 to base your answer on.)
“She’s my best friend. You don’t have a say in it.”

Mom blinks at me, leans in.

“You think I’ve never been wild? Do you think I’ve never left through a window? Ask me about the last time I tried to leave through a window.”

I stare back and say nothing.

“Ask me.”

“Fine. What happened the last time you left through a window?”

“My father caught me. I was on my way to Tiananmen Square for a protest. He locked the window from the outside and pushed two cabinets up against the door to keep me in. By the time he let me out, four of my best friends were dead.”

The light from my desk lamp glances off her nose and cheekbones in a way that makes her eyes look darker than usual. Then her lips pull back and her chin bunches up. I have never seen her cry, and the fact that she almost does comes as a surprise. But there is nothing surprising to me about her facial expression of pain. I recognize it in a way that feels congenital, that must have something to do with bloodlines. Oh, I think. Of course, she would look like that.

“It was supposed to be peaceful,” she says. “No one ever thought they would open fire on students. When you’re young, you think everyone is on your side. You can’t imagine everything you have to lose.”

It occurs to me then that there are things about my mom that I know without being told or shown. I know them just because I am her daughter. For example, Dad thinks she’s haunted by what could have happened to her at Tiananmen Square. But I know that she’s just as haunted by the fact that it didn’t.
English
1 answer:
True [87]2 years ago
8 0

In <em>Lucy Tan's Safety of Numbers</em>, the narrator's mother, who was locked inside the house, lost her confidence in society and self-expression. Now, she has become rigid in raising her daughter.

<h3>Safety of Numbers</h3>

The devastating Tiananmen Square experience haunts Lucy Tan's mother. As one of the students who protested in Tiananmen Square, she realized that society does not care for the vulnerable and can force one to renounce their youth naivety. Could anyone expect the authorities to order the opening of fire on protesting students with no weapon other than their voices?

Thus, the fact that the narrator's mother was locked inside the house for a long duration shattered her confidence in society and reduced her self-expression.

Learn more about Lucy Tan's Safety of Numbers at brainly.com/question/17505388

You might be interested in
Which version best uses a variety of sentence structures to enhance the flow
Makovka662 [10]

Answer: C. As he sat on the curb in front of the school, Tico twirled a stick in his hand. Aunt Maricel would be there soon. Tico felt nervous because he knew she would ask about his trumpet, and he would have to explain everything.

Explanation:

The version that best uses a variety of sentence structures to enhance the flow and writing style of a story is option is C "As he sat on the curb in front of the school, Tico twirled a stick in his hand. Aunt Maricel would be there soon. Tico felt nervous

because he knew she would ask about his trumpet, and he would have to explain everything".

This is the right answer because all the other options are not structured properly. Option C enhances the flow as the option is structured properly as the words also flow along well.

7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Prefixes for impartial
DerKrebs [107]
The prefix in the word 'impartial', meaning 'unbiased', is im-. Without that prefix, partial means biased. Im- is a prefix that gives a word its opposite meaning.
7 0
3 years ago
Why men are against of shifts in gender roles??
miskamm [114]
Some (not all) men are against shifting gender roles because, historically and presently the nature of gender roles typically put males at a societal advantage. So the concept of having shifts in these gender roles, means that many males are often nervous that they will lose the stability in the systematic designation of societal standing due to gender, that was always designed to favour them. Although these fears are irrational, as most of the modern movements in relation to gender roles are in favour of freedom of the individual, and not intended to put any group or person at a disadvantage.
5 0
3 years ago
Assuming the character maydelle is a symbol, what does he mostly plausibly represent? A. taking from society without ever giving
Schach [20]

Answer:

well is he greedy or not? if he is than you have two choices, A. and D. if he is judgmental then the answer is C.  if he is kind then the answer would be B, overcoming circumstances to act morally.

5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Add quotation marks where they need to go! Tysm!! Answer only if you know
denis23 [38]
“i would like to do that again”
4 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Which statement best explains the absence of stanzas in Patricia Hubbell's "The Black Snake"? The poet doesn't want to slow down
    8·1 answer
  • Click to read the passage from The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. Then
    8·1 answer
  • Which of these is a biased statement?
    7·2 answers
  • How do you feel about this NEW NORMAL way of learning? need help on grammar​
    11·1 answer
  • How does Mathilde's attitude about life differ from her husband's? A Mathilde comes from a wealthy family, and she feels she mar
    8·2 answers
  • Which of the following must a tragic hero (hero in a tragedy) possess?
    12·2 answers
  • Write one to two sentences comparing how the author connects to the audience in the written version of the speech and the video
    6·2 answers
  • Can someone do this! 15 points
    9·1 answer
  • True or False: Meyer Wolfsheim comes immediately to Gatsby's after Gatsby is shot​
    8·1 answer
  • “Witness this, god of the zenith, noblest of the
    8·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!