How does walking up to the top deck of the ship influence the narrator's viewpoint in "Homesick"?

Walking up to the ship’s top deck gives the narrator a view of the ocean and makes her think about being between the life she left in China and the one ahead in America. It deepens her sense that she is “in-between” everything, rather than making her feel she is going nowhere or regret leaving China.

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