Which of the following excerpts from Sandra Cisneros's story "Mericans" best reveals a blending of cultures?
"The awful grandmother knits the names of the dead and the living into one long prayer fringed with the grandchildren born
in that barbaric country with its barbaric ways."
"They're not from here. Ladies don't come to church dressed in pants. And everybody knows men aren't supposed to wear
shorts."
“Por favor,' says the lady. ¿Un foto? pointing to her camera.
'Si.
She's so busy taking Junior's picture, she doesn't notice me and Keeks."
"Hey, Michele, Keeks. You guys want gum?'
'But you speak English!'
'Yeah,' my brother says, 'we're Mericans."
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they used personification to make the truck seem mean and violent.

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it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.