Read the following excerpt from sandra cisneros’s story "mericans."

after all that dust and dark, the light from the plaza makes me squinch my eyes like if i just came out of the movies. my brother keeks is drawing squiggly lines on the concrete with a wedge of glass and the heel of his shoe. my brother junior squatting against the entrance, talking to a lady and man. they’re not from here. ladies don’t come to church dressed in pants. and everybody knows men aren’t supposed to wear shorts. “¿quieres chicle? ” the lady asks in a spanish too big for her mouth.

the irony in this excerpt contributes most to which of the following themes?

it is always preferable to forget the past and focus on the future.

it is possible for people to be connected to more than one culture.

it is very easy to learn two different languages if one works hard.

it is always easier to criticize people before getting to know them.

B - It's possible for people to connected to more than one culture.

Explanation:

In this excerpt from 'Mericans', the narrator is explaining how new people are tying to fit in with the culture  and knows 'they're not from around here'. The narrator is part of two worlds: the one of Americans and the one of Mexicans.

choose from these types:

the innocent

the orphan

the hero

the caregiver

the explorer

the rebel

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.