Which sentence shows that the author is using first-person point of view? it was a lazy sunday afternoon. the sun was blazing over the roof, baking us all like cookies in an oven. i was lying on the sofa reading an old book. i was home alone because my mom had gone to her friend's wedding. she had asked me to come along. but who would want to step out in the scorching heat? the only activity worth doing on a hot afternoon is to read a good book while sipping lemonade. i had just begun to enjoy the book when there was loud knock on the front door. i looked up and wondered if it were a robber, a salesperson, or just the next-door lady looking for sugar. our neighbors were funny people. they would run out of things at the weirdest hours. i put my book away and walked to the door.

Read this excerpt from “what i hope to leave behind.” for a number of years it took so much vitality to keep the home going, and that home represented so many different kinds of activities, that none of us had any urge to go outside of this sphere. if “what i hope to leave behind” was the subject of a class discussion, why might paraphrasing this sentence be ? you could analyze the key themes while also staying true to the original language. you could summarize the key ideas, which would shorten the length of the excerpt. you could use your own ideas and concepts, which would add important information. you could rephrase it in your own words, which might clarify the meaning of the excerpt.

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.