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The Tourist Center

The poet would like tourists to see her country's______

a. families on camping trips
b. fish and birds
c. garbage and slush
d. mountains and lakes

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The poet would like tourists to see her country's d. mountains and lakes. In her work, Atwood shows how a Canadian sees other people's ideas of Canada and represents the meaning of  how different our idea of a thing can be from the actual reality because she has a totally different view towards Canada: she perceives the country as a national while other perceive it as a good place for tourism.

Answer:

D. Mountains and Lakes.

Explanation:

"The Tourist Center" is a poem written by Margret Atwood. In her poem she describes "her country" which is Canada, as she is a Canadian writer. She is in Boston's tourist center at present and looking at map and viewing Canada, which is reduced to the size of a wall.

"There is my country under glass,

a white relief –

map with red dots for the cities,

reduced to the size of a wall..."

The poet want tourists to see the mountains and lakes of her country.

"but arrangements of grinning tourists-

look here, Saskatchewan "

Saskatchewan is a Canadian Province, that the poet mentions in her poem. This province is covered with rivers, lakes and forests in the Northern parts of the province and grassland covers the Southern plains.

So, the correct answer is Mountains and lakes.

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