Question

the odd way in which the authors grandmother behaved just before she died

Answer 1

Answer:

She had omitted to pray, she was not going to waste any more time talking to us.

She lay peacefully in bed praying and telling her beads.

Even before we could suspect, her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers.

Answer 2

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Just before her death, the author’s grandmother refused to talk to them. Since she had omitted to pray the previous night while she was singing songs of homecoming and beating the drum, she was not going to waste any more time. She ignored their protests. She lay peacefully in bed praying and telling beads