3. short-response prompt

read the following excerpt from narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave.
our food was coarse corn-meal boiled. this was called mush. it was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground. the children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush; some with oystershells, others with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, and none with spoons. he that ate fastest got most; he that was strongest secured the best place; and few left the trough satisfied.

how does douglass's objective style add to the power of his narrative? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Douglass is describing a morally repugnant situation. He uses an objective style because he does not wish to sugarcoat what happened, but rather to elicit disgust in the reader at the treatment of slaves in Southern society. The comparison with pigs is particularly striking; the lowering of human beings to the condition of animals makes one recoil in horror. Not only are slaves treated like animals; they are not even satisfied. This makes his denunciation of slavery all the more powerful.

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)