Read the excerpt below from east of eden by john steinbeck and answer the question that follows.

i must depend on hearsay, on old photographs, on stories told, and on memories which are hazy and mixed with fable in trying to tell you about the hamiltons. . young samuel hamilton came from the north of ireland and so did his wife. he was the son of small farmers, neither rich nor poor, who had lived on one landhold and in one stone house for many hundreds of years. source: steinbeck, john. east of eden. new york: penguin group, 1952. google books. web. 16 may 2011.

based on the excerpt, what is the point of view of the narrator?
-first-person observer only
-first-person major character
-third-person limited
-third-person omniscient

A) First-person observer only.

Explanation: when writing, an author can use speakers that narrate the story from different perspectives, in order to create different impacts on the readers. In the given excerpt we can see an example of first-person observer (which uses the pronoun “I” and presents the events of the story and the actions of other characters through his point of view and may participate in the events of the story).

to inform the reader that the text will take a second look at the grimms’ original tales

the president was the speaker and it was a great part of history.

explanation:

video of the national aeronautic space administration's (nasa) coverage of president john f. kennedy’s address at rice university, houston, texas, concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration. in his speech the president discusses the necessity for the united states to become an international leader in space exploration and famously states, "we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."