3 Question 1 (5 points)
Identify/highlight a piece of information that shows the focus on a relationship in
this part of the memoir below. Then, explain how this information connects to the
characteristic of focusing on a relationship with the narrator and another character.
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"On Diwali evenings, my mom let me eat as many sweets as I wanted. She'd buy
jalebees, even though she'd complain that they weren't as good as the ones she
used to get in India. These were too cold, too sticky, But Diwali, the Hindu festival
of lights and good conquering evil, is and was a day for eating, so she'd also make a
big vegetarian feast and sweet puris piled high in a metal bowl as a religious
offering. After dinner, she and I would sit in front of her makeshift temple and she'd
mutter something about Lakshmi in Hindi. In a clay diya, she'd make a candle from a
cotton ball and ghee, pull smoke from it with her hands, and wrap it around my face,
mithai crumbs on my lips."