How does Tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? Tan describes her friends’ understanding of her mother to support the idea that nonstandard forms of English should only be used in the home.
Tan uses numerical data to support the idea that nonstandard forms of English are on the decline and being replaced by one standard form.
Tan tells a story about her mother’s life to support the idea that learning the language of a new country comes naturally to most people.
Tan discusses her mother’s English to support the idea that the language of one’s childhood is a person’s deepest, truest form of expression.

What details of the first two paragraphs convey a sense of the ordinary,behind the scenes routines of film critics?

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

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