“burning a book” by william stafford protecting each other, right in the center a few pages glow a long time. the cover goes first, then outer leaves curling away, then spine and a scattering. truth, brittle and faint, burns easily, it’s fire as hot as the fire lies make—flame doesn’t care. you can usually find a few charred words in the ashes. and some books ought to burn, trying for character but just faking it. more disturbing than book ashes are whole libraries that no one got around to writing—desolate towns, miles of unthought in cities, and the terrorized countryside where while dogs own anything that moves. if a book isn’t written, no one needs to burn it—ignorance can dance in the absent of fire. so i’ve burned books. and there are many i haven’t even written, and nobody has. 1) which of the following best summarized the theme of the poem? a: ignorance and a lack of new ideas are greater threats to society than burning books. b: book burning creates ignorance and chaos in societies; free speech should be encouraged. c: the worst threat of censorship is its ability to erase prominent writers from history. d: we are all guilty of censorship when we reject ideas that do not align with our own. 2) describe the structure of the poem, and explain how this structure supports the development of the theme. cite evidence from the poem in your response.

For number 1, the answer is A because this poem talks about how it is so dissappointing that people are not reading and thus he burns the books because it is a lesser evil.

For number 2, I am not quite sure. I was never too good at that in English.

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)

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