20 POINTS!! Gordimer described "Once Upon a Time" as a "bedtime story." In at least 100 words, discuss how her decision to set her
story in a fairy-tale world affected you as you read it. Use details from the story to support your answer.

  At first, the narrator resists writing a children's story (although she has been asked to), saying she doesn't write children's literature.

  Then, that night, she is awakened by a creaking noise in her dark house. She fears a robber or home invader. She remembers a woman murdered in her home two blocks away and a widower murdered by a disgruntled employee he had laid off. Having guard dogs didn't keep the widower safe. Blacks in South Africa have become increasingly angry at the terrible way they have been treated, and they are now fighting back.

    Although the narrator realizes there is nobody in her house, she is still wide awake and frightened. Therefore, she says, she tells herself a "bedtime story."

   This story is the fairy tale of a family so fearful of the outside world invading their beautiful home that they top the walls of their house with razor wire to feel safe. Unfortunately, their little boy gets tangled in the razor wire...

At first, the narrator resists writing a children's story (although she has been asked to), saying she doesn't write children's literature.

 Then, that night, she is awakened by a creaking noise in her dark house. She fears a robber or home invader. She remembers a woman murdered in her home two blocks away and a widower murdered by a disgruntled employee he had laid off. Having guard dogs didn't keep the widower safe. Blacks in South Africa have become increasingly angry at the terrible way they have been treated, and they are now fighting back.

   Although the narrator realizes there is nobody in her house, she is still wide awake and frightened. Therefore, she says, she tells herself a "bedtime story."

  This story is the fairy tale of a family so fearful of the outside world invading their beautiful home that they top the walls of their house with razor wire to feel safe. Unfortunately, their little boy gets tangled in the razor wire...

Explanation:

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)

theresa is going to be my girl this year, he promised himself as he left the gym full of students in his new fall clothes.