The author uses the Sears Roebuck catalog as a symbol for:
A. the materialism of the American culture that imprisons her.
B. her parents' failure to provide for her.
C. the difference between American and Japanese cultures.
D. all the truly good things in the outside world.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.