In the article “Survival is Your Own Responsibility,” how does the author use rhetoric to advance his or her purpose for having written the text?

What excerpt from a student essay maintains the most objective tone

Exit in which of the following passages from the text is the author's motif of displacement and separation most evident? a. "in these ways it was a typical wartime departure, full of proud smiles and half-concealed worry." b. "it upheld the army's decision to limit the movements of a racially select group of citizens." c. "once the first year's turmoil cooled down, the authorities started letting us outside…" d. "if anything made that country habitable it was the mountains themselves…"

What does the machinery in the hospital represent to the army major in the story? support your answer with textual evidence.