| Main and Subordinate Ideas suthor may develop the main or central idea ofthe paragraph ‘ough « seres of subordinate ideas. Consider the opening sen {Teale paragraph on country superstitions. The frst ive main idea: the second sentence a subordinate idea otcops through llustraion Inthe kore of he oun, mero syperstins eae 0 Dacesouny farmers examine her corn sks the thst the ask, the cles the winter, «indented to show the levels of subordination in these “. Notic hat dhe third sentence ha the seme importance ond in developing the main dea: | "Mile moreso, ener severe etn, , a Ws ‘nd 5) we went to the coundhoui where the stam > ngines stood when they were not pling trains. They had jl entered through the same door but ise thee tracks ‘par to gracfly asthe obs of a lady's fan. My ite great deal about engines, he knew he names elt and be wae mong en th pie are) to the coundhouse we pesed thu the ¢ iene ee ama eae j shies My father sid thatthe ears belonged e different | SStrcads nnd eame from various paris ofthe country. beng * Suplea together here because all those in one tain were Shun forthe sume destination, This was geting foo come pleated but there was nothing complicated about my fa Urs emotion when he sud, “Working fora rlvosd i Bke | ising everywhere in the country at once!” A characteristic mchaniment came into hs eye and voile, a contagious ‘station which ean hat anything fe atached to was ving everywhere was something that even a child sprraguey and plese <0 the blast furnaces. He explained how the iron ore ne boats was mixed with coal and carried in litle ears hi lup ofthe chimney above the furnace. It was dumped, oi as it fell down * asspeciabkindofsvenyhotaie’ Was fl svt, The coal and iron ore caught fre, and below oe iy father and I made other trips and best were the 5 men Main and Subordinate Ideas techn a they fll into great tubs as melting metal, P pinkish gold liquid incandescent as the sun is when its starting to set ‘The man and child were allowed o go rather near the to feel the scorching heat and to drown their gaze in the slowing boil All the rest of the building wes dark; the silhouettes of the men who worked at the vats were black Shadows, Wearing long leather. gprons, they moved about the vats ladling off the slag “MAT was very skilled work, my father seid; the men had to know just how much of the worthless slag to remove. For years afterwards, when we could no longer spend Sunday afternoons on these expedi tions, we used to go out of our house at nigh to see the pink rellections from the blast furnaces on the clouds over Cleve- land, We could remember that we hed watched the vatfuls of heavily moving gold, and those events from the past were an unspoken bond between us Someone once said, "Your father mast have been trying to tum you into a boy. He'd probably wanted his first child tobe a son” Perhaps; but it was not strange to him to show « gil the achievements of men. He thought of women as hhuman beings and assumed that they, even one very young, ‘would be interested in anything that was interesting io hi. He had absorbed that attitude from the women he'd grown ‘up with, his mother and her four sisters, all of whom led adventurous lives. His favorite Aunt Chris had married a clipper captain and sailed with him all her life, When they retired, having seen the entire world, they chose to sete in Burma. Another aunt married one of the Morgan family, who established the famous breed of Morgan horses, and took up a homestead in Manitoba, Aunt Mary, a physician's Wife, went with him out to San Francisco during the Gold Rush and stayed there. The fourth aunt had married the inspector of ships’ chronometers at Quebec; and my fa: her's mother, of course, had married her skipper from Holland. Inthe winter when he was not on his ship he ran ¢ factory for making, that he had established in ‘western Kentueky-fall this and the fathering of fve chil: dren by the time hefwas twenty-eight, when he fost his life in rd a wen4 ‘The Pargraph: Organization ious Lake Erie storm. His wife, a musician, brought | five without complaint, ust as her mother, also an rly widow, ad reared her five gallant girls. With his | "es of women like these it was not surprising that my ‘wish, even somewhat prematurely 1 show his things that were thrilling to him. T did not ‘omprshend all is family history at four but I did absorb the impression that girls and women reached out for life sy and that it was natural for them to be interested in absolutely everything, ‘aft abel foot | TYottovatid eho Un Ratner | dow paew ~ Faveilyy Wartory oakiumct devine dear chy of onate grcetege