Using contextual clues, what implicit meaning is there in the line “now I'm someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable c
hannels?” She misses the television shows she used to watch in India.
She doesn't feel like she's a very fast learner when it comes to American culture.
Though an Indian immigrant, in some ways she feels very integrated into American society.
Though it was a challenge, she worked very hard to understand American television programming.
The implicit meaning in the line "now I'm someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels" is that, though an Indian immigrant, in some ways she feels very integrated into American society. The main contextual clue in the line is "tractor pulls" because tractor pulling is a kind of competition that one would not think is popular in India, but it is kind of motorsport competition that is popular in the United States. The fact that the speaker is watching this competitions on cable channels lets the reader know that she has adopted some american cultural customs.
I agree with the quotation. Literature should not be all about sound facts nor is it about fantasies. It must lie in between. We each have our own levels of understanding and our own personal fantasies. A work of literature must provides us with something new in order for the time spent in consuming it be worthwhile. The Book Thief tells us of hard facts but it also provides us with something else, how a life of young child harboring a wanted man is changed after the fact. In the Lord of the Rings, a fantasy world is so vivid and wide that you yourself can navigate through it. Read more on Brainly - brainly.com/sf/question/2397944
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Nicolas Flamel is the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone, an object capable of turning metal into gold and granting immortality with its Elixir of Life.
