Read the following passage from Mark Twain's "The War Prayer": [T]hen home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed,
adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the
volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by
the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers
to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag,
or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths.
Based on this passage, how would you characterize the townspeople's
attitude toward the war?

A. Enthusiastic

Explanation:

According to the passage from Mark Twain's "The War Prayer", it is narrated that the people were glad their heroes of war were back as they were "submerged in golden seas of glory" and the people were envied by neighbors who didn't have sons or brothers to send to war and fight for honor and flag.

Therefore, based on this passage, the people's attitude towards the war was enthusiasm.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

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teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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