Read the excerpt below from the novel east of eden by john steinbeck and answer the question that follows. the salinas valley is in northern california. it is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the salinas river winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into monterey bay. i remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. i remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer—and what trees and seasons smelled like—how people looked and walked and smelled even. the memory of odors is very rich. source: steinbeck, john. east of eden. new york: penguin group, 1952. google books. web. 16 may 2011. what is the narrator's point of view? third-person omniscient third-person limited third-person objective first-person

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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