Read the excerpt from Chapter 35 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn below and answer the question.

“And there’s Jim chained by one leg, with a ten-foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain.”

“What do we want of a saw?”
“What do we want of a saw? Hain’t we got to saw the leg of Jim’s bed off, so as to get the chain loose?”
“Why you just said a body could lift up the bedstead and slip the chain off.”
“Well, if that ain’t just like you, Huck Finn. You can get up the infant-schooliest ways of goin at a thing. Why, hain’t you read any books at all?

I says:
“What do we want of a moat when we’re going to snake him out from under the cabin?”
But he never heard me. He had forgot me and everything else. He had his chin in his hand, thinking. Pretty soon he sighs and shakes his head; then sighs again, and says:
“No, it wouldn’t do—there ain’t necessity enough for it.”
“For what?” I says.
“Why to saw Jim’s leg off,” he says.
“Good land!” I says: “why, there ain’t no necessity for it. And what would you want to saw his leg off for, anyway?”

Although they are friends, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer display different character traits and responses to events and to one another’s suggested plans. State one trait of each character that is evidenced in this excerpt. Explain how differences between the two characters add to the development and resolution of the episode presented. Include evidence from the text.

Tom Sawyer likes to make everything interesting and complicated and Huckleberry Finn prefers to get things done as soon as possible. Both of the characters are arguing about getting Jim away. This makes the reader wonder who's idea is going to be used. The differences between the two characters show how their friendship also works.

Explanation:

"You can get up the infant-schooliest ways of goin at a thing. Why, hain’t you read any books at all?" Tom is saying that in books things are interesting and that Huck is making Jim's way of escape seem so simple and easy.

Huck says, "“why, there ain’t no necessity for it. .."' He doesn't want to take a while to free Jim when he can jsut slip off his chain.

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 price of our current war is high; it costs money and it costs lives.

but it does not cost our pride. it does not cost the guilt that would arise from knowing that we did nothing to intervene while our neighboring nations fell to despotic leaders.

it does not cost the terror of knowing that our allies are unstable. it does not cost the fear that we, too, will be next to fall.

which sentence most accurately explains why the speaker's use of the parallel structure is effective in this passage?

a. it underscores that disagreement will not be tolerated and will be dealt with swiftly.

b. it makes the speaker seem like a decisive and capable leader.

c. it emphasizes reasons to fight and inspires listeners to aid the war effort.

d. it establishes the speaker's credibility by acknowledging the difficulties of war.