Which statement expresses one of the main themes of the poem
which statement expressed one of the main themes of the poem

she was trying to use   reliable narrator.

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.

dr eric sanderson is a character from the book "a world without us". acording to this story dr sanderson's goal is to determine what manhattan island was in the past, before it became a city. sanderson is an ecologist who is interested in the way manhattan looked like in the 17th century.