I need help in figuring out the topic sentence I think that the topic sentence is I have never understood my mom's obsession with the holiday season Is this correct?
The main idea is about the holidays and everyone gets along and the decorations Is this correct?
(1) I have never understood my mom’s obsession wit
h the holiday season. (2) My mom always
wants everyone to get along during this time of yea
r. (3) The tension begins about a week before
Thanksgiving she starts bringing alot of different
foods into the house. (4) For example, cranberries
.
(5) She also goes to neighborhood cookie swaps. (6
) She brings home at least fifteen dozen cookies.
(7) We has evergreen wreaths on every door, evergre
en candle holders, evergreen tableclothes with
matching napkins, and evergreen baskets with pine c
ones. (8) At about the same time the strange
foods come into the house, she decides that every r
oom in the house need decorations of some sort. (9)
Last year, there was so many ornaments that smelled
like cinamon in our house that I dreamed I was
working in a spice factory. (10) Then, when Mom de
cides that our entire house should smell like
evergreens and look like a pine forest, it does. (
11) Mom, who is usually a stable person, has finally
y
gone off the deep end with her holiday cheer
The topic sentence you identify is correct. Are you sure this narrative is about everyone getting along? Is it more about the decorations than anything else? Think it over.
Based on the given paragraph, the topic sentence seems to be "I have never understood my mom's obsession with the holiday season." This is because it is the sentence that introduces the main idea of the paragraph, which is the author's confusion about their mom's enthusiasm for the holiday season.
The main idea of the paragraph appears to be about the author's mom's involvement in various holiday-related activities such as food preparations, cookie swaps, and extensive decorations. So, the statement "The main idea is about the holidays and everyone gets along and the decorations" is not entirely accurate. It focuses more on the author's mom's actions and the overwhelming abundance of holiday-related items in the house.