1. (a) Determine an author's point of view or purpose.
What do the details in paragraphs 2, 5, and 16 suggest is the author's point of
view, or main purpose, in writing the excerpt from Blue Nines and Red Words?
What does he seem to want to show about himself?
(b) Analyze how the author acknowledges conflicting viewpoints.
Explain how the author's viewpoint about living with savant syndrome and
accompanying synesthesia might be different from the viewpoint of those he
describes in paragraph 15. Explain how his purpose might relate to those people.
R1.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says
- --Lavanese dream from the text.