Read the paragraph. (1) in the 1940s, heroes such as superman and g. i. joe had perfect morals and character. (2) they stood for ideals that we hoped we could achieve. (3) in modern society, however, heroes tend to be troubled outcasts or accidentally heroic. (4) heroes today, unlike those of the past, must have a flawed character in order to become popular. what is the topic sentence of the paragraph?
a. sentence 1
b. sentence 2
c. sentence 3
d. sentence 4

D). Sentence 4.

Explanation:

The topic is illustrated as the subject or theme that has been centrally discussed or argued in a paper or text.

In the given excerpt, sentence 4 displays the topic of the paragraph as the idea 'Heroes today, unlike those of the past, must have a flawed character in order to become popular' primarily functions to indicate the key concern(subject) of the paragraph that proposes a universal approach to which the readers could affiliate and that binds all the elements of the paragraph in a single thread in order to offer an accomplished thought. Therefore, it reflects the theme of the paragraph and hence, option D i.e. sentence 4 is the correct answer.

answer: it puts the reader in the place of the elizabethan who has to pay fines for eating meat

(i has to answer this question once too, thats how i knwo the answer)