3. PART A: What is Emerson's overall purpose in his essay?

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to argue that people's feelings about nature

are more important than nature itself

to defend the idea that only children can see

nature as it really is

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to explain why a special kind of insight is

required to fully experience nature

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to consider whether it is foolish for humans to

believe they can comprehend nature

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."