Question

In the essay, Going to Japan by Barbara Kingsolver, List three examples the author gives to illustrate her inability to blend in on her trip to Japan.

Answer 1

Three examples the author gives to illustrate her inability to blend in on her trip to Japan:
1. She do not know how to use chopsticks and do it wrong while eating noodles.
2. She was embarrassed when she had her bare-naked legs and callous foreign ways. She went to Japan on a warmer season so the people were wearing nylon stockings while she had her skirts.
3. When she curiously touched the palace to see what it is made of, she unknowingly screech off the alarms which made the police cars came scooting up the lawn's silent gravel path.