A topic sentence is a sentence that includes the main idea of the paragraph.
It is a sentence that is usually found in the beginning of a paragraph, although not always. It is the sentence that states what the main idea of that particular paragraph is, and then the paragraph is there to support this sentence, not the other way round.
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Answer:
The part of the plot that is revealed in this excerpt is:
C) a resolution in which the Lins have become the hosts.
Explanation:
The excerpt we are analyzing here belongs to the short story "The All-American Slurp", by Lensey Namioka. <u>The narrator is a girl from the Lin family, from China.</u> The Lins have moved to the U.S. and are struggling to adjust themselves to the completely different culture they now find themselves immersed in. <u>They are invited to dine at the Gleasons', but their Chinese eating etiquette is perceived as rude by the American characters. The narrator is embarrassed at this moment as well as others, seeing her family as inadequate. </u>
<u>However, once the Gleasons become the guests and the Lins become the hosts, we are presented with a resolution to that conflict. The narrator realizes her family is not inadequate.</u><u> Now, the Gleasons are the ones struggling to eat the Chinese meal. That does not make them inferior, the same way the Lins are also not inferior in any manner. They simply come from different backgrounds, having distinct habits and behaviors.</u>
The excerpt “<em>But what if I fail of my purpose here?/ It is but to keep the nerves at strain,/ To dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, / And, baffled, get up and begin again, /— So the chase takes up one’s life, that’s all</em>” reveals that the speaker will never give up the pursuit for his beloved: while the first verse contemplates the prospect of failure, the following disclose an inclination toward resilience that is reenforced in the other sections of the piece. The speaker’s views on love and the pursuit of love being a product of fate rather than the speaker's own will and romantic inclinations demonstrate how the acceptance of his fate and the manner with which he allows said fate to shape his life – and, to an extent, himself – is also a commentary on how love is perceived as a struggle, as an endeavour, as something that the speaker must adapt to in order to dominate. The speaker’s love for his beloved is not a passing fancy, it is something that he ultimately accepts and fights for.
