The story “departure” describes a character leaving home, and the passage from “up the coolly” describes a character returning home. write an essay that analyzes how the narrators relate the events about the journeys in a manner that builds mystery and/or tension. be sure to use support from both texts in developing your response.

The story “Departure” starts talking about George and the departure, but it does not tell the reader where George will go. The author describes each detail of the scenery which causes tension and mystery. “Beyond the last house on Trunion Pike in Winesburg, there is a great stretch of open fields. The fields are owned by farmers who live in town and drive homeward at evening along Trunion Pike…” The story also tells the reader a little bit of George’s past that relates to the places he looks at the moment. Further, in the story the reader learns a little about of George’s adventure, he is leaving a small town to go to a big city “Tom had seen a thousand George Willards go out of their towns to the city. It was a commonplace enough incident with him”.

The Story “Up the Coolly” also uses the description of scenery to build mystery and tension “It all swept back upon Howard in a flood of names and faces and sights and sounds; something sweet and stirring somehow, though it had little of aesthetic charms at the time”. When the main character returns to places, his memory brings him back to old days “Once they passed a little brook singing in a mournfully sweet way its eternal song over its pebbles. It called back to Howard the days when he and Grant, his younger brother, had fished in this little brook for trout…”

Further the reader learns that the main character left his town to become an actor “He had been wonderfully successful, and yet had carried into his success as a dramatic author as well as an actor” and as he approaches his brother’s house memories to come back with pleasure and excitement but also with the memory of how many times he said he would visit and did not.

The authors used scenery to build tension and mystery in the passages.

The story titled "Departure" was about George and his departure. The fact that the author didn't tell the readers the destination of  George added tension and suspense to the story.

The story "Up the Coolly” also used mystery we tension. The story depicted how the main character had to leave his town in order to become an actor.

In conclusion, it should be noted the description used by the author was to create suspense and convey the message appropriately.

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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)