What's an author's purpose?
"Kostia and Edik's find was big. More than once-in-a-lifetime big. More than once-in-a-millennium big. They had discovered a frozen baby wooly mammoth. People had discovered the bones of mammoths before. They had even found large parts of frozen mammoth bodies. Never had anyone found a mammoth - or any other extinct, prehistoric animal - that was completely whole and so well preserved." - Mammoths and Mastadons: Titans of the Ice Age by Cheryl Bardoe

An author's purpose is the overall main idea or central idea on why the author wrote the article or essay.

Explanation:

If you are asking for the author's purpose in the passage you have included then the author's purpose is to provide information to the reader about the history of the woolly mammoth and the discovery of Kostia and Edik's of the first mammoth.

amy tan

explanation:

the african society basically suffered the consequences of colonization and apartheid directly attacking the black people, first, during the colonialism and its main idea which which "white people" had better rights, affecting   them principally in the right to establish black people in their territories, access to quality education and health services and took away any civil right even to the black people to feel they have the same opportunities as the settlers.