HELP FAST!!"The Italian Quarter, as other parts of the city hit by the disaster, had been reduced to a knotted, tangled mass of bent steel frames, charred bricks, and ashes." The sequence of detailed images in the sentence above are meant to illustrate all of the following EXCEPT:

The tragedy
the blame
the destruction
the disaster

i would lay on the ground, and wait for the earth to simply take me back!

- sincerely, ouma

the answer would be a

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.