36. read the following excerpt from “in another country” by ernest hemingway.

"the doctor told me that the major’s wife, who was very young and whom he had not married until he was definitely invalided out of the war, had died of pneumonia. she had been sick only a few days. no one expected her to die."

what is the mood of this excerpt? cite examples from the excerpt to support your answer.
(5 points).

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 and died on July 2, 1961. He was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He had a strong influence on the 20th-century fiction. His adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were published after his dead. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. But perhaps the best of his works is “the Old man and The Sea” where he represents the lonely fight a fisherman had to put against his catch. Most of his works were inspired in his adventurous life style: fishing, hunting, mountaineering, etc.

The short story “In Another Country” is about an ambulance military member in Milan during World War I. Even though he is not given a name overtly, he is assumed to be "Nick Adams", a character Hemingway made to represent himself. He has an injured knee and visits a hospital daily for rehabilitation. There the "machines" are used to speed the healing, with the doctors making use of the miraculous new technology. They show pictures to the wounded of injuries like theirs healed by the machines, but the war-hardened soldiers are portrayed as skeptical, perhaps understandably so.

The mood of this excerpt is:

Sad and Mourning

the major’s wife, who was very young had died of pneumonia. She had been sick only a few days. No one expected her to die.

the image of a young woman dying after only a few days of being sick is really sad. And mourning because it is assumed that the Major was really suffering for his your dead wife.

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)

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment