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The answer is C. When Amy refers to dinner time with her family, she describes, not a pleasant but a distressing time during which her parents did things and behaved in embarassing ways. The fish cheeks that her father eats and offers her represents Amy's heritage but she would much prefer to just avoid the ritual of serving it and, perhaps not to see Robert's grimace.
Instructions: For each question, respond in one or more paragraphs of at least four complete sentences. Include supporting facts and details from your research in each response. Provide the sources for your supporting research. Using support from your research materials, identify and explain any political, social, economic, or cultural issues that may shape the story. The Holocaust was going on during this book, and this was a time when many children were vulnerable, and the Nazis killed many young kids, but the chances of survival for Jewish and non-jewish teenagers(13-18) were greater because they could be deployed at forced labor.
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