The sentence that is punctuated correctly is option A. On her Mediterranean cruise, Mamie visited Barcelona, Spain; Nice, France; and Pisa, Italy. A semicolon is used in this sentence because more than one of the units in the series are using the punctuation mark commas.
This is from the Joy Luck Club im guessing??? the primary conflict is between the narrator and her mother, the contention that comes with arguing weather or not loosing more or less pieces results in a better or worse game. the secondary contention is subliminal. it is the pressure the traditional mother puts on her child to not only win, but to always win. Her mother lived in a place and time where only those who did the best survived. the narrator only wants to win, but is willing to make sacrifices to get there. There is the tension and misunderstanding between these two generations.
In Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Gravity" the conflict between her mother and father is A. the mother wants to return to Puerto Rico, but the father is committed to staying in the United States. Elenita's mother is always talking about the family on the Island and longing to see them again. On the contrary, her father is constantly speaking about the restaurant owned by Reyes. He is constantly offering excuses for not going to Puerto Rico. After some years Elenita learns that her father was ashamed of not being able to provide them with the middle-class life her mother was used to in Puerto Rico, so he doesn't want to face her mother's family
