Lady or Tiger Response Questions After reading the story.

If you were the lady, what door would you choose for the man?

Explain in detail Based on your understanding of the story, which door do you think the lady chose for the man? Use textual evidence from the story to support your response. Explain in detail

What do you believe is the author's purpose in writing the story? Explain in detail.

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

i belive the answer is to determine what manhattan island was like before it became a city - apex