Read the excerpt from The People Could Fly

So [the alligators] all be quiet. Until the fire flare real high and close. Sparks flyin, they swinge all over them gators bare, white skins. The gators swink close down but it don't do them no good. They got to move. The hot fire is real up now. It blister they tails and they snouts. And the gators are runnin away. Bruh Gator is in front, the little alligators is in the middle, and Sis Alligator comin on from the last.

The details in this excerpt help readers visualize

what the sparks smell and sound like to the alligators.
how hot and painful the flames are to the alligators.
how dry and dusty the ground feels to the alligators.
what the dry grass smells and feels like to the alligators.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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