Read the interpretation below of the author’s purpose in writing the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian and answer the question that follows. sherman alexie wrote the book in order to advocate for native americans’ rights. he did a great job! what is missing from the interpretation? a) no evidence is present to defend the interpretation. b) it isn’t the correct interpretation, which is discussed in the lecture. c) it is missing the other two purposes or reasons alexie wrote the book. d) sherman alexie never stated why he wrote the book.

A.

Explanation:

"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" is a novel written  by Sherman Alexie, published first in 2007.  The novel was written in first person narrative perspective. The book is about Arnold Spirit Junior, a fourteen-year-old cartoonist.

The given interpretation is missing the evidence of its claim. The interpreter has told what he thinks the author's purpose in writing the novel but he did not provided or defended his interpretation by showing the evidences from the novel.

The right way of interpreting any novel or piece of writing is to provide evidences from the text, of your statement that you are claiming to be true and valid.

For example, if I am saying that the theme of the novel "Pride and Prejudice" is love and marriage, then I would quote the text that proves my statement.

So, the correct answer is option A.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

c

explanation: