at the end of the meal, my father leaned back and belched loudly, my mother for her fine cooking. "it's a polite chinese custom to show you are satisfied," explained my father to our astonished guests. robert was looking at his plate with a reddened face. the minister managed to muster up a quiet burp. i was stunned into silence for the rest of the night.
—“fish cheeks,”
amy tan

why does amy tan use the imagery “belched loudly” to describe her father’s burp and “reddened” to describe robert’s face?
to show that her father is trying to embarrass her
to show that robert is unable to burp and show he is satisfied
to show how impolite her father is being
to show how different amy’s family’s customs are from robert’s

To show how different Amy’s family’s customs are from Robert’s

Explanation:

Fish Cheeks is a story about Amy, a Chinese girl, and her family. They invited the minister`s family to Christmas Eve dinner. Amy is in love with their son Robert. Amy was afraid how the evening will turn out because their customs differ a lot and Robert`s family might think something bad about her family. They are loud and their behavior is much more relaxed than it is in a middle-class American family. So what her father did was just an act of courtesy which minister`s family tried to follow. Amy felt so embarrassed. After the dinner was over, her mother said that it is okay that she wants to be socially accepted, but that she should not give up her origin.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

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