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The phrase "the heavy scent of latest America" (line 13) is best interpreted as


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No Okay AP England lit Learners Next up for you

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here's question the phrase the heavy scent of latest America

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Online thirteen There is best interpreted as what All right

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so here we go Let's look at the line Thirteen

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We're gonna skim right out there and read it And

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he did no sleeping that night but listened to the

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aliens go fart and snore while they filled the car

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with the heavy scent of latest America Clearly from the

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X Files if you watch that All right Well here

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we go Simply put Amory doesn't like his fellow passengers

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He calls him stinking aliens Nice guy a few lines

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before and says they go far and snore through the

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night It sounds like a shmoop whiter Not particularly nice

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descriptions right If the immigrants stink than the heavy sent

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is the immigrants themselves And Emery is throwing some seriously

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xenophobic shade their way So the answer here is B

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It's a metaphor for immigrants new to the country All

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right while the loser bowl here Other than Emery all

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the phrase isn't being used TTO literally mean a scent

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So get rid of A And the narrator isn't concerned

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with the war in the specific scene So get rid

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of D What's keeping him awake is his aversion to

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the Greeks and the Russians bad guys Because he uses

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such intensely negative description for the immigrants It's more likely

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he feels hatred or contempt not unease as Annie's Or

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get rid of that And finally American culture is changing

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as Bob Dylan But in this scene while that changes

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tide specifically to these aliens yeah do do do do

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do do do answers be X files or Twilight Zone 00:01:49.84 --> [endTime] Something like that Never mind

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