Why is Grace so upset in The Westing Game, Chapter 22.

She thinks about how she won't ever take his medals, or sell the clock with the mouse on it, even if it will take longer to save up to go back to China. Meanwhile, Grace is too embarrassed to go to the players' meeting and Jake has to convince her to go.

Explanation:

personal narrative

first person fiction

etc.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.