Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban. i was only two years old when i left cuba but i remember everything that’s happened to me since i was a baby, even word-for-word conversations. i was sitting in my grandmother’s lap, playing with her drop pearl earrings, when my mother told her we were leaving the country. abuela celia called her a traitor to the revolution. mom tried to pull me away but i clung to the abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs. my grandfather came running and said, “celia, let the girl go. she belongs with lourdes.” this was the last time i saw her. how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?

it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the difficult relationship between lourdes and celia.

it provides characterization for celia as it reveals her physical appearance.

it introduces several of the narrators who will share their points of view.

it includes dialogue to indicate that the characters in the nonfiction account are real people.

It’s C

It introduces several of the narrators who will share their points of view

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)

i think its a.

an ugly duckling is teased by the other ducklings. when she grows up, however, the ducklings discover that she is a beautiful swan