Question

She reads the newspapers page by page for leftist conspiracies, jams her finger against imagined evidence and says, “See. What did I tell you?”

Which previous segment should Draya reread to make the excerpt easier to understand?
I take all my money out of the bank, $120, money I earned slaving away at my mother’s bakery, and buy a one-way bus ticket to Miami.
Mom tried to pull me away but I clung to the Abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs.
I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for-word conversations.
Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce.

Answer 1

Reread the paragraph that introduces the Abuela — the one that describes the grandmother and her habit of scanning newspapers for leftist conspiracies. That earlier segment identifies who “she” is and explains why Mom reacts so strongly to the word “Communist.”