Chapter 4: Nick and Gatsby pass a hearse with a dead man in it. Judging from his entourage would you say he was loved or unloved in his life? Why do you think so?

Answer and Explanation:

A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms, followed by two  carriages with drawn blinds and by more cheerful carriages for  friends. The friends looked out at us with the tragic eyes and short  upper lips of south-eastern Europe, and I was glad that the sight of  Gatsby's splendid car was included in their somber holiday.

The excerpt above was taken from Chapter 4 of "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald. From the dead man's entourage, I would say he was indeed loved in his life. There are two carriages for his family and some more for his friends. A first-time reader would not know, but this can be used as a comparison for Gatsby's funeral in the end of the book.

Unlike this man, Gatsby will not have several people attending his wake and burial. No one truly ever loved Gatsby. Many people did use him to have some fun - they attended his grand parties uninvited, always counting on his money and hospitality. But no one, not even Daisy, the love of his life, followed his hearse in carriages, like the dead man above.

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)

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