50 pts and brainliest answer plz ! analyze how bharati mukherjee uses allusions in her writing of "the four hundred year old woman." include at least two examples of allusions (aside from those listed above), and explain what she meant in the context of this essay. consider both the literal and implied meanings of her allusions as they relate to time period and culture, as well as why she chose to use an allusion rather than just state her meaning. your response should be at least two hundred words.

The use of allusions is to help the reader better understand the point that the writer makes, the intended meaning that she applies and wants us to think on this.

Mukherjee makes an intended point above all in her use of allusions. She tries to explain her point about westernization as an escape by alluding the latter considering the difficulty to achieve it, the difficulty to hit this road and makes the reader think about this point.  

Sometimes allusion is concealed that it requires an effort from the reader to tap into the intended meaning. In her essay the writer identifies herself as an American and writes that her books is reduced to jacket-flap copy amidst the transformation of the United States in 1970s. The jacket-flap copy does not have a direct meaning. Mukherjee does not mean that publishers stopped to publish his book as hard-copies, but what she means is about her writing experience later. She started to write less as she grow older.    

The title itself is open to discussion as the writer points out to the 400 year old cultural, historical and technological reshaping as an Indian and her new identity as an American thus redefining what makes her a true American.

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.