Read the passage from "How Books Can Open Your Mind!"
But my dream was to become a Chinese opera singer. That is me playing my imaginary piano. An opera singe must start training young to learn acrobatics, so I tried everything I could to go to opera school. I even wrote the school principal and the host of a radio show. But no adults liked the idea. No adults believed I was serio Only my friends supported me, but they were kids, just as powerless as I was. So at age 15, I knew I was too to be trained. My dream would never come true. I was afraid that for the rest of my life some second-class happiness would be the best I could hope for.
But that's so unfair. So I was determined to find another calling. Nobody around to teach me? Fine. I turned t books.
What is the central idea of this passage
• Books provided a purpose after the author couldn't achieve her dream of being an opera singer
The author wrote to many people about becoming an opera singer, but no one listened
• The author was unfairly cheated of the opportunity to become an opera singer because she was too c
Becoming an opera singer was not a realistic goal for the author, which she learned to late