MLA style : Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: Scholastic, 2001. Print.
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A. <em>Tahereh Saffarzadeh's authorial point of view would be different if she had been born in the United States.</em> Being born in Israel and having lived in Iran for years before leaving to England and then to the United States, her vision about Persian culture and Islamic religion is no doubt different from that of a U.S. born citizen. Those societal aspects must be ingrained within her education and formation, making her point of view of the subject more personal and perhaps less conflicted than it would be if her was born in the U.S. (the relations between both cultures being so conflicted for sure have an influence on the citizens of both places and cultures).
Answer:
The elements that help a reader determine the central idea of a text are: Distinguishing between key details and minor details or repetition ideas
Explanation
I agree with you 100%.
I would like for us students to be able to write whatever our heart desires. What bothers me sometimes is when we have to write a ton of essays on the short stories we read; such as writing about the theme of the story, symbolism within the story, and so forth.
However, I can see why teachers would rather assign the writing assignments. It's to help us improve our writing and in a way, reading skills. For me, when I had English class my first essay was horrible and lacked examples from the text. As my teacher kept assigning essays, I found myself improving little by little.
Overall though, I still do think teachers should allow us to pick out a topic to write about. The closest time where that happened was when my teacher gave 3 different topics and we got to write about one out of the three. That's somewhat close to being able to pick our own topic.. but at the same time, not really haha.
