Read this excerpt from "Homesick Blues." My experience in the city had left me even more eager to leave behind the solitude, heat, and monotony of rural Oklahoma. I couldn't wait to get back to the city, to spend my evenings strolling along busy streets, ducking into quaint little restaurants to dine on exotic foods, and soaking up the music and culture of the city.

How does the setting in the excerpt affect the narrator?

The city makes her dislike her rural home.
The city makes her appreciate her rural home.
The city makes her ignore her rural home.
The city makes her want to improve her rural home.

The city makes her dislike her rural home.

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from "Homesick Blues", the narrator talks about her experience in the city makes her want to leave the rural setting of Oklahoma and go back to the city to enjoy some benefits she's used to.

She says that she misses strolling around in the busy streets of the city and eating exotic foods in the restaurants, etc.

The setting in the excerpt affects the narrator because the city makes her dislike her rural home.

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.