English, 21.01.2021 04:10 karnun1201

Read this excerpt from "A 400-Year-Old Woman" in The Writer and Her Work by Bharati Mukherjee and answer the question. Yet my imaginative home is also in the tales told by my mother and grandmother. … For all the hope and energy I have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation – I’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now I’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels – there are parts of me that remain Indian.

What is the implicit meaning in the satire?

poking gentle fun at stories Indians tell
making a serious point about public transportation
poking gentle fun at herself for her imagination
poking gentle fun at herself for integrating into American culture of vehicles and television

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