How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Mariah says, "I have Indian blood in me," and underneath everything I could swear she says it as if she were announcing her possession of a trophy (2.34).
Mariah seems to want to lay claim to her own foreignness in order to mark herself as unique and to bond with Lucy, but her plan backfires big time as the perceptive Lucy recognizes instantly her superficial reasons for asserting a Native American identity.
Quote #8
I had met Dinah the night after we arrived here on our holiday, and I did not like her. This was because the first thing she said to me when Mariah introduced us was "So you are from the islands?" [. . .] I was about to respond to her in this way: "Which islands exactly do you mean? The Hawaiian Islands? The islands that make up Indonesia or what? (3.14).
Hmm. Lucy seems to object to Dinah's failure to distinguish one set of islands from another. Why do you think this offends her?
Quote #9
[. . .] I wished once again that I came from a place where no one wanted to go, a place that was filled with slag and unexpectedly erupting volcanoes, or where a visitor was turned into a pebble on setting foot there; somehow it made me ashamed to come from a place where the only thing to be said about it was "I had fun when I was there." (3.20)
Who would've thought living in a popular Spring Break destination would be a hardship? Why is Lucy so ashamed to come from a place known for its partying?