Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative. read this excerpt from “lake titicaca” by miguel angel asturias. they travel with their llamas. they see me, knitting their cheeks to contemplate me with their tiny eyes. what does the phrase “knitting their cheeks” mean? the travelers and the llamas are connected. the llamas are moving their jaws. the llama’s small eyes look like knitting needles. the travelers are knitting on their llamas.

The llamas are moving their jaws.

Miguel Angel Asturias was a Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan poet, diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. He drew attention to Latin American indigenous cultures, in particular those of his native Guatemala.

In this excerpt, he phrase "knitting their jaws" uses figurative language to describe the way in which llamas move their jaws. The author implies that this movement resembles that of knitting.

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)