Read the following excerpt patricia hampl’s “the need to say it” and answer the question. she kept her distance from the printed word of english, but she lavished attention on her lodge newspaper which came once a month, written in the quaint nineteenth-century czech she and her generation had brought to america before the turn of the century. like a wedding cake saved from the feast, this language, over the years, had become a fossil, still recognized but no longer something to be put in the mouth. in the excerpt above, what does the author imply about the grandmother? a. her grandmother enjoyed reading current events from her native town and country. b. her grandmother held english books far away from her face. c. her grandmother was jealous of the her newspaper. d. her grandmother also read her local newspaper.

Answer :

"She kept her distance from the printed word of English, but she lavished attention on her lodge newspaper which came once a month, written in the quaint nineteenth-century Czech she and her generation had brought to America before the turn of the century. Like a wedding cake saved from the feast, this language, over the years, had become a fossil, still recognized but no longer something to be put in the mouth."

A. In the above excerpt from Patricia Hampl's "The Need to Say it," the author implies that her Grandmother enjoyed reading current events from her native town and country.

A. Her Grandmother enjoyed reading current events from her native town and country.

Explanation:

Her Grandmotheris a Czech who relocated to America. She doesn't care to peruse anything in English. She simply needed to associate with her foundations by perusing the recent developments from her local town and nation which was communicated through her native dialect.