Read the following passage, an excerpt from an email newsletter During the congressional recess, Representative Smythe will appear at a local community center. It is our intention to greet him with a warm welcome and invite him to the spelling bee we will be holding outside the center. We encourage him to participate and will offer him words we know he can spell, like cruelty and ignorance.

What information would be necessary for a reader to understand that the passage is meant as satire?

In a 10-12 sentence response-style paragraph, explore the degree to which you agree or disagree with faulkner’s message. “i believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. he is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. the poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. it is his privilege to man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. the poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to him endure and prevail” (faulkner 773-775).