Exercise $6$: Looking at Deeper Meaning

Re$-$read lines $30-44$ carefully. The author, who was raised in the U$.$S$.,$ returns to her parents' homeland as an adult. focus on what she notices about not just the physical surroundings of the city & its people, but also the emotions and thoughts that are stirred by this visit.

What does dhaqan$-$celis mean?

$q,$

Remember the scene that starts this story$--$a $4$ th grade field trip to a creek to see the salmon spawning. Now re$-$read Part $4$ lines $42-43$: "A body always returns to the place that shaped it$.$ A body always returns to its ghosts."

What does the author mean by these statements?