Read this excerpt from mukherjee’s memoir and answer the question. i have found my way to the united states after many transit stops. the unglimpsed phantom faridpur and the all too real manhattan have merged as “desh.” i am an american. i am an american writer, in the american mainstream, trying to extend it. this is a vitally important statement for me – i am not an indian writer, not an expatriate. i am an immigrant; my investment is in the american reality, not the indian. it took me ten painful years, from the early seventies to the early eighties, to overthrow the smothering tyranny of nostalgia. in the above excerpt, mukherjee’s imagery of “overthrow the smothering tyranny of nostalgia” means what?

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.