Answer:
The narrator finds it challenging to fit in because her family has different cultural values.
Explanation:
The White Umbrella's narrator is a Chinese American girl who fights with feelings of embarrassment and a desire to fit in. Embarrassment over her own immigrant mother is one among them. She wishes her piano teacher was her mother when she receives a lovely white umbrella from her teacher.
The correct answer is "a long narrative poem focused on heroic action and national in scope".
An example of such epics would be Edmund Spencer's Fairy Queen, or Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Answer:
the speaker can no longer see which direction the road goes. the undergrowth obscures the road's direction from the speaker's sight.