Question

PART B: Which phrase from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

Group of answer choices

“’In my heart, I feel like this is my birthday,’ she said with a laugh after greeting other returning refugees at the registration table.” (Paragraph 8)

“He spent evenings looking up at the mountains outside his barracks. ‘Foggy and sad’ are how he remembers them. ‘You’d have nothing to do and just walk around,’ he said about his time in the camp.” (Paragraph 16 and Paragraph 17)

Before he left the camp in 1975, he passed around a notebook and asked his friends to each write a farewell letter. (Paragraph 20)

“One of his friends…wrote in Vietnamese: ‘I do not know what to write while there is a feeling of emptiness in my mind.’…None of those friends who wrote letters came to the reunion.” (Paragraph 21 and Paragraph 22)

Answer 1

The best phrase illustrating the theme of homesickness is the dialogue expressing the student's conflicted feelings about missing family yet wanting to remain at camp to prove resilience.

Step-by-step explanation:

The phrase that best supports the feeling of homesickness referenced in Part A is: "Please don't call my parents," he whispered hoarsely. "I miss my family, but I don't want to go home. I begged them to let me come to camp, but my mom just said I'd get so homesick I'd be back in two days. This is my first time away from home." This passage encapsulates the emotion of missing one's family combined with the desire to stay and prove oneself capable of being away from home, which is a nuanced aspect of homesickness.