Pierre is a student who does not understand the following sentence from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban. Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in Brooklyn. She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north. Which strategy would best help Pierre understand the excerpt?

looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence

Explanation:

The "Dreaming in Cuban" was a famous novel written by the author named,  Cristina García,. It was her first novel. This book was nominated for the National Book Award, where she was the finalist.

The book "Dreaming in Cuban" was about the the lives of a three generation of women of a family in the Cuba and the United States.

In the context, Pierre is finding difficulty in understanding the excerpt taken from the novel. So the best strategy for Pierre to understand the sentences from the excerpt is to look up for the unfamiliar words given in the sentence and see their meaning and explanations. When Pierre will understand the meaning of the unfamiliar words, she will understand the sentences.

the answer is emerged from.

orpheus descended to hades, the world of the death to rescue eurydice. no mortal had ever done this before him, he survived because he was protected by the gods. the word "underworld" gives us a clue, he emerged from it like a whale emerges form sea for exemple.