Anchor: It does not tell us what we need to know about America, what a novel can tell us about the complex attitudes and allegiances of a time and a place.
Entailed: It fails to tell us what we should know about the USA.
Contradiction: It tells us all we could hope to know about America.
Contradiction: The girls are asleep.
Contradiction: Asking for scraps outside of restaurants.
Contradiction: a cat plays with string
Contradiction: The little boys were chasing the soccer ball.