We had beached the boat and stepped out on the recently cleared spit of land. the ground had a light dusting of white sand over an under layer of dried black mud. it looked like a recently frosted chocolate cake, though the frosting was spread a bit thin for my taste. the ground was solid, but we knew from experience that it was full of fiddler crab holes, and would be underwater at the first super-high tide. mysteriously, to us anyway, someone wanted to build a house there.

read this line from the text:

it looked like a recently frosted chocolate cake, though the frosting was spread a bit thin for my taste.

what does this line suggest about the narrator?

the narrator likes lots of frosting.

the narrator thinks about different kinds of soil.

the narrator prefers sand to mud.

the narrator has been thinking a lot about food.

The narrator prefers sand to mud.

Explanation:

This is most likely what the statement is meant to indicate. The author uses the idea of frosting and cake as a metaphor to talk about sand and mud. It is not meant to be read literally, as the topic of food is irrelevant in the text. What the author means is that the layer of sand (what would be the "frosting" in the chocolate cake) was too thin. The overall meaning is that the soil is not particularly desirable because there is not enough sand, and the author prefers sand to mud.

intonation based on rhythm.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.