Question

SHARKS' TEETH

Langston Carter

The day we found the sharks' teeth was foggy and cool. Moisture hung in the air so thick you could almost see it sparkling in the dim sunlight. There were days, early in the summer like this one, where it seemed there was more water in the air than in the bay. We had beached the boat and stepped out on the recently cleared spit of land. The ground had a light dusting of white sand over an under layer of dried black mud. It looked like a recently frosted chocolate cake, though the frosting was spread a bit thin for my taste. The ground was solid, but we knew from experience that it was full of fiddler crab holes, and would be underwater at the first super-high tide. Mysteriously, to us anyway, someone wanted to build a house there.

We often came to these spots to look for artifacts. Our beach, our summer home, had been a fishing camp for as long as anyone living could remember. The oldest stories told of travelers coming down to the edge of the sea, lining up to fill their wagon beds with salted fish to take back home. Old decaying cabins still lined the beach. Rotting nets, hung out to dry in the last century, decorated their weathered walls. Their broken faces spun stories in our minds. The fishermen who, tanned and wrinkled from sun and salt, hauled their nets full of splashing mullet in to cheers from the waiting crowds. The bounty of the sea lightened everyone's hearts, and the smell of roasting fish filled the damp air. Women fanned themselves from wagon seats. Children splashed in the shallow edges of the bay. It was a scene we had acted out as youngsters, building an imaginary bridge to a life we would never fully know.

Read this line from the text:

It looked like a recently frosted chocolate cake, though the frosting was spread a bit thin for my taste.

What does this line suggest about the narrator?

The narrator likes lots of frosting.
The narrator thinks about different kinds of soil.
The narrator prefers sand to mud.
The narrator has been thinking a lot about food.

Answer 1

What this line suggests about the narrator is that The narrator thinks about different kinds of soil.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the line "It looked like a recently frosted chocolate cake, though the frosting was spread a bit thin for my taste." the narrator is making reference to the quantity of sand that there is above the mud and by the expression for my taste is showing a preference of one over another, then he says that he can not understand why people want to build in there if that kind of mixture of sand and mud was for the presence of a lot of crab holes, which makes this bad soil to construct.