In the evening we went to her room to take her to be cremated. All ove…

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In the evening we went to her room to take her to be cremated. All over the verandah and in her room, right up to where she lay dead, thousands of sparrows sat scattered on the floor. There was no chirruping. My mother broke some bread into little crumbs and threw it to them, the way my grandmother used to. The sparrows took no notice of the bread. When we carried my grandmother's corpse off, they flew away quietly.

The author uses the sparrows' behaviour mainly to suggest:

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B. the deep bond between the grandmother and the birds

The birds' refusal to eat and their silent vigil dramatise the strength of the bond between them and the grandmother.

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that the birds were simply not hungry

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that the bread had turned stale

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that the birds feared the mourners