Which detail from the text best supports the answer to part a? a “my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave good-bye to me.” ( paragraph 1) b “‘do you think kindergarten is too unsettling for laurie? all this toughness, and bad grammar, and this charles boy sounds like such a bad influence.’” ( paragraph 21) c “with the third week of kindergarten charles was an institution in our family; the baby was being a charles when she cried all afternoon” ( paragraph 41) d “‘we had a little trouble adjusting, the first week or so,’ she said primly, ‘but now he’s a fine little . with occasional lapses, of course.’” ( paragraph 68)

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

amaterasu is my sister! wow so rude!