The author of "My Brother's Keeper" emphasizes Jamie's conflict by options:
1. describing the car accident in detail
2. detailing Jamie's physical appearance and good grades
3.flashing back to earlier events with his brother ted
4.including the incident of his parent's death

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.