"Going Home"

A. describe the narrator's transition from her everyday working life in the city to the world of her her rural childhood.

B. explain why the narrator becomes so frustrated when she arrives at her mother's house in the countryside.

C. give the reader enough background about the setting of the story to explain the events of the later parts of the passage

D. foreshadow the narrator's feelings of abandonment as described in the last paragraph in the passage.

F. humid and extremely hot

G. unbearably hot and miserable

H. cool and breezy

J. Pleasantly familiar

A. surprise at the dilapidated state of the building.

B. frustration and anger towards her mother.

C. joy tinged with fatigue caused by her travels.

D. familiar recognition combined with nervousness

F. daughter describing her thoughts during an event in her adult life.

G. daughter reminiscing about her distant childhood.

H. mother remembering her daughter's visit to the family home.

J. mother who longs to visit her adult daughter but cannot

A. fastened

B. straightened

C. Prepared

D. supported

F. harsh and uncompromising.

G. uneducated yet wise.

H. altruistic and warm.

J. distant but caring.

A. the anger that a daughter feels towards her distant mother ad her struggles to overcome this anger.

B. the conflicting emotions experienced by the narrator upon her homecoming from her life in the city to the rural childhood of her youth

C. the narrator's realization that her mother has aged terribly during the during the four years the narrator spend in the college

D. an older woman's cautious but willful acceptance of her daughter's foreign lifestyle as the older woman is forced to stay in her hometown

F. extremely close, built on frank emotional openness and mutual respect of one another's independent decisions

G. based on unspoken thoughts, leading to occasional misunderstandings, but ultimately supportive and caring

H. antagonistic, largely due to the mother's unwillingness to support her daughter's independent decision to move away.

J. a very distant relationship, largely nonexistent outside of rare visits on the part of the daughter.

A. metaphorical descriptions of the setting.

B. subtle but emotionally charged with dialogue.

C. visual descriptions and narrative reflections.

detailed psychological portraits by and objective narrator

F. She wants to desperately for her mother to be more expressive of her emotions

G. Her mother has aged to such an extent that the daughter has trouble recognizing her and house in which she lives

H. It is difficult to leave someone and not be able to visit them every year during the holidays

J. Her mother have been supportive of the narrator's decision to leave but has not expressed it in a way the narrator expects