“bite back your tongue,” scolded my mother when i cried loudly, yanking her hand toward the store that sold bags of salted plums. at home, she said, “wise guy, he not go against wind. in chinese we say, come from south, blow with wind—poom! —north will follow. strongest wind cannot be seen.”

the next week i bit back my tongue as we entered the store with the forbidden candies. when my mother finished her shopping, she quietly plucked a small bag of plums from the rack and put it on the counter with the rest of the items.

when the narrator bites back her tongue, what two forces are struggling?

meimei vs. self
lindo vs. meimei
lindo vs. self
lindo vs. lau po

Choose the sentence which has a subject and verb that agree the clouds that cover the mood dissipate quickly or harry and joe ran quickly to the bleacher that were without empty seats

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 5, scene 5. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. which prediction about the plot does this passage most support? brutus will replace caesar. brutus will take his own life. brutus will surrender to his enemies. brutus will be forever haunted by caesar.

In the poem, collins suggests that memories do what as people age