Read the short story and answer the question, please and thanks. Questions:
1. What kind of a person is the husband?
2. What kind of character is the wife?
3. Who is the narrator?
4. What are some examples of mood?
5. Is the title appropriate?
6. Identify 5 important words in this story
7. What do you think the husband told his wife?
8. How would you change the conclusion of the story?

1. The husband is a person who doesn't like attention but is also rude (inconspicuous)

2. the wife is sweet and shy

3. the narrator is a bystander at the restaurant who witnessed it all

4. the mood is dismal and heartbreaking

5. The title isn't very fitting, as it wasn't really a birthday party and the husband didn't enjoy it at all

6.  embarassed, indignant, curt, unkind, punishing, heartbrokenly

7. he probably told her he hated his present, or that he was angry at her

8. I would have ended it with him forgiving her and her being happy.

the correct answer is c. he speculates on what might happen at given points in the future in a world without people. alan h. weisman is an american author, professor, and journalist. authors organize their information with a purpose. they present their ideas in an organized way. this is called text structure. weisman uses text structure so as to improve overall comprehension and to prove his points.

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)