The following question refers to stolen day : in what sense is the narrator s day stolen
a. the narrator s mother makes him lay down for hours.
b. the narrator s perfect day is ruined.
c. the narrator s day has been stolen away because his illness limits his activities
d. the narrator should have been in school, but he faked sick and had a day to himself.

d. the narrator should have been in school, but he faked sick and had a day to himself.

Explanation:

This activity is about the short story "Stolen day".

The narrator feels sick only because he sees a boy who has a disease and cannot go to school and he starts believing he has the same disease. He leaves school and goes home where he claims his mother does not give him enough attention.

Answers "b" and "c" are not correct because he did not have a plan in the first place and he did went fishing; and I also do not believe answer "a" is correct because the narrator's mother only makes him lay for one or two hours and then he says he feels okay again.

The correct answer is "d".

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.

do you have a copy of the poem?