Which best describes the point of view murkherjee hopes to encourage in her readership in “a four-hundred-year-old woman”? a) that writers have a literary duty to give voice to their ancestors b) that third world immigrants are just as much a part of america as are european immigrants c) that america is compromised of people from all over the world who have rich stories to share d) that where we choose to live defines who we will become

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

What effect does an author achieve b the language of the monstrous? y using words with strong connotations? how does this relate to

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