I believe the answer would have to be A.......i have read it and confirm that there is lots of foreshadowing throughout the story
A) the two sentences show the cause and effect. The cause were massive typhoons and the effect was that invading ships were sent home.
Lying is bad to do even if it is for a good cause because the truth always gets out some time later.
it is not a matter of inference
the reason for Tan believing that "nonstandard English is no less valid than standard English" is related to the fact that Standard English’ was considered as a form of the English language, universal or common in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, however, it was associated with social class and was seen by many as the language of the educated. On the contrary, speakers from lower classes in the past and today, tend to use nonstandard dialect features because they are more likely to have left education earlier, have non-professional jobs and have no need to associate themselves with a ‘prestige’ way of speaking.
