Read the excerpt from "fish cheeks." my relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table, dipping them into the dozen or so plates of food. robert and their family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them. my relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. robert grimaced. why does tan describe her family eating at the same time she describes the reaction of robert and his family? to show how delicious chinese food is to show tan’s disgust for her family to the reader understand chinese culture to the reader feel tan’s embarrassment

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

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