Read this excerpt from "a 400-year-old woman" in the writer and her work by bharati mukherjee and answer the question. yet my imaginative home is also in the tales told by my mother and grandmother. … for all the hope and energy i have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation – i’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now i’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels – there are parts of me that remain indian. what words in the above excerpt demonstrate humor in satire? "i’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now i’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels." "– there are parts of me that remain indian." "yet my imaginative home is also in the tales told by my mother and grandmother. " "for all the hope and energy i have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation "

"I’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now I’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels." is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Bharati Mukherjee was an Indian American writer. Her works explored different styles of fiction and nonfiction genres, such as short stories, novels, among others. A 400-Year-Old Woman is an essay about the author's own process of adaptation.

Satire is employed to criticize aspects of a society or a person using humor or irony. It is used to expose vices. In the excerpt, readers understand that the speaker was a kind of threat to civilization -a vice- since she could not do even a basic thing such as riding a bus. Later, she recognizes her adaptation to more "sophisticated" things when she mentions that is a person who "watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels," showing two opposite things to create a humorous impact in the reader.

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as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.