Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. WOMAN ONE (a little reluctantly) Well . . . Sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . A couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . Looking up at the sky. (she looks around the circle of faces) Based on the dialogue and stage directions, what should the reader imagine in this scene?

A woman talking to a group of eager listeners.

Explanation:

The Twilight Zone  is a book written by Rod Sterling and illustrated by Mark Kneece and Rich Ellis. It was adapted into a television series, The Twilight Zone, while "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" is episode 22 of this show.

At the beginning of this excerpt, a woman is telling a story, but there is no evidence to whom she is talking.  However, at the end of her story, there is a direction of scene "she looks around the circle of faces", which suggests that she is talking to a group of people. These people probably surrounded her, and are listening to her story.

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)

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