Abe
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of Obasan by Joy
Kogawa.
Now here I am this autumn morning, five months later,
with her heavy package on my lap. Many of the
conference papers she showed me last May are here as
well as her diary and a bulging manila envelope full of
letters. The side seam of the envelope is slightly torn and
it bursts apart as I try to take out the contents. The pile
cascades over my lap, falling onto the floor and into the
plastic beach bottle wastebasket beside me.
Which mood do the words "heavy," "bulging," and "torn"
create?
O overwhelming
excited
distant
O sympathetic