Read the excerpt from "Homesick" by Jean Fritz,
Of course it wasn't the same as one of the forty-eight states; still, when we stepped off the President Taft in
Honolulu (where we were to stay a couple of days before going on to San Francisco), we wondered if we could
truthfully say we were stepping on American soil. I said no.
With these sentences, the narrator is
expressing confusion about the relationship between Honolulu and America,
O providing useful background information about Honolulu and San Francisco
O revealing that she and other passengers may have different points of view about America,
asserting that her opinion about America is correct and should be respected by the other passengers.