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 is the implicit meaning in the satire? poking gentle fun at herself for her imagination poking gentle fun at stories indians tell making a serious point about public transportation poking gentle fun at herself for integrating into american culture of vehicles and television

The correct answer is “poking gentle fun at herself for integrating into American culture of vehicles and television”. Bharati Mukherjee was an Indian writer whose works were focused on the topic of migration. Mukherjee left her country in 1947 and then became an immigrant in the United States. In the book “The Writer and Her Work” by Janet Sternburg (1980), Mukherjee published an essay called “A 400-Year-Old Woman” about her experience as an immigrant writer. Within that essay, one can find the excerpt presented above. The implicit meaning in the satire in this passage is that she laughs at herself, since she tries integrating herself into the American culture and its vehicles and television. Mukherjee explains that she could not ride a public bus when she first arrived at the United States, and now she perceives the buses as tractors pulling on obscure cable channels (a different point of view). In fact, in the following line Mukherjee says that part of her Indian culture remains in her mind. This explains why Mukherjee has a different point of view on American culture, yet she integrates into it.

The implicit meaning in the satire is that she's poking gentle fun at herself for integrating into American culture of vehicles and television

Explanation:

A satire is a literary device that writers use to criticize the foolish acts of the characters or the whole society humorously, at the same time that it tends to exaggerate these characteristics, here the narrator talks about the way she has got used to American Culture and by describing her olds self versus herl new version she satirizes how much she has changed.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.