In paragraph 74 of “Sol Painting, Inc.” Merci remarks, “It’s kind of cool to be blind for a few minutes.” Describe a moment in the story when a character was figuratively “blind” to something. How does this moment contribute to the story as a whole?

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.

they bound logs together and built a raft. enkidu steered it down the great river. gilgamesh carried humbaba's head.

hasty generalization