The sentence: "The sun hurled its rays against my eyeballs, penetrating the 1 point dark glasses, and the prospect of those whirling rides at the amusement
park spread sick-ness through my veins" (Page 27) best serves to

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.