Read this excerpt from "The All-American Slurp."

Mrs. Gleason bent down and whispered to us, “This is a buffet dinner. You help yourselves to some food and eat it in the living room.”

Our family beat a retreat back to the sofa as if chased by enemy soldiers. For the rest of the evening, too mortified to go back to the dining table, I nursed a bit of potato salad on my plate.

What part of the plot is revealed in this excerpt?

an introduction of new characters
a conflict between the Lins and the unfamiliar culture
a conflict between the narrator and her family
a resolution in which the narrator becomes more comfortable

- "there are several movements that doris lessing was associated with. first of all, communism. she pursued her communist beliefs and included them in her writing, and was also a member of several communist book clubs. she is also strongly associated with feminism, her fight for equality and women's rights.

doris lessing is the kind of writer who has followers, not just readers. they have been engaged to her chiefly because of her involvement in major problems, such as politics and woman-ism."

- the mistakes that have been done in the past will repeat themselves

- you will trust all the wrong people

because they were not just any seashells they were sally's seashells