When i first walked across the tarmac of saigon’s tansonnhut airport on a warm evening in april, 1962, nervous that the customs officers might not accept the journalist’s visa i had hurriedly obtained from the south vietnamese consulate in hong kong, i believed in what my country was doing in vietnam. with military and economic aid and a few thousand pilots and army advisers, the united states was attempting to the non-communist vietnamese build a viable and independent nation-state and defeat a communist guerilla insurgency that would subject them to a dour tyranny. what is the author’s connection to the social and political issues of his day? he is a united states soldier who embraces the opportunity to fight and defeat communist forces in vietnam. he is a united states soldier who is attempting to deceive the vietnamese customs officials. he is a journalist who believes in the united states government’s intentions in vietnam. he is a journalist who believes the united states government should offer greater aid to countries suffering from tyranny.

Which literary device has emily dickinson used in these lines? how dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog to tell your name the livelong day to an admiring bog! metaphor alliteration simile allusion

Read the excerpts from part 3 of "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." a rising sheet of water curved over him, fell down upon him, blinded him, strangled him! the cannon had taken a hand in the game. as he shook his head free from the commotion of the smitten water he heard the deflected shot humming through the air ahead, and in an instant it was cracking and smashing the branches in the forest beyond. *** a whiz and rattle of grapeshot among the branches high above his head roused him from his dream. the baffled cannoneer had fired him a random farewell. he sprang to his feet, rushed up the sloping bank, and plunged into the forest. *** as he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon—then all is darkness and silence! what function does the motif of the cannon serve throughout the story? the cannon continually pushes farquhar to continue his journey through his dream and back to reality. the cannon encourages farquhar to investigate whether his escape was a dream or reality. the cannon reminds farquhar that time is subjective and encourages him to move quickly in order to reach his home. the cannon represents farquhar’s romantic dream that he escaped his execution and will return home.

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