Question

The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

The speaker used to be a teenager.

The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

The speaker used to be a teenager.

Interactive Chart
Textual Evidence
Inference
Doors and lips shut
and we become strangers
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a code I knew but can’t remember
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I see faces I once held,
open as sunflowers in my hands.
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familiar skin now stretched on long bodies
that move past me
glowing almost like pearls.
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Answer 1

- "Doors and lips shut and we become strangers" → The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

- "a code I knew but can’t remember" → The speaker used to be a teenager.

- "I see faces I once held, open as sunflowers in my hands." → The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

- "familiar skin now stretched on long bodies that move past me glowing almost like pearls." → The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.