Why does the author include details about the dinner party hosted by the Lins in "The All-American Slurp"?

1.to illustrate the narrator’s frustration with her parents’ customs
2.to reveal the Lins’ difficulty with trying to understand their neighbors
3.to highlight the narrator’s developing friendship with Meg
4.to emphasize a key similarity between the Gleasons and the Lins

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts