It brought forth a vague memory of a storm on Arwad Island, when he was just a boy, when the Mediterranean rose up and swallowed the lower-sitting homes, the blue-green sea sitting inside living rooms and bedrooms and kitchens. The water breached and dodged the Phoenician stones surrounding the island without any difficulty at all. Why does the author include this flashback

Read the excerpt from part 2 of Zeitoun.

It brought forth a vague memory of a storm on Arwad Island, when he was just a boy, when the Mediterranean rose up and swallowed the lower-sitting homes, the blue-green sea sitting inside living rooms and bedrooms and kitchens. The water breached and dodged the Phoenician stones surrounding the island without any difficulty at all.

Why does the author include this flashback?

to present various images of nature’s strength throughout history

to prove Zeitoun’s good fortune and his ability to overcome adversity

to emphasize the social differences between Eastern and Western cultures

to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature

to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature

Explanation:

The story is about a boy named Zeitoun who grew up in the coastal town of Jableh, in Syria. His father was a ship's captain of which he and his brother also want to be sailors.

There is a great storm that happens when he is much older which evokes the memory of the island where he was born which depicts his birth town and to show that his foreign birth was universal to his struggles against nature.

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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