Which word best describes the mood of the bergeron household?

Harrison Bergeron is a satiric science fiction story written by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1961 on The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as a collection of stories by the same author called:

Welcome to the Monkey House

The story is set in the future year of 2081. The plot presents a satiric idea of “ social equality” by modifying the constitution so as to forbid outstanding from the common citizen.

The word best describes the mood of the bergeron household is:

Soft, Suave, mild or subdued.

You pick the one that you like the most( they all mean the same).

Subdued

Explanation:

In this dystopia of Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, all men are "equal". Well, it's not really that they are equal, but that they are forced to be equal. And as they really are not, no matter how much the Constitution is committed, a ruthless iron system of control is established that prevents by force that a person stands out for some quality.   Therefore they are subdued to the political regime

The story is set in the year 2081, in the United States. "Harrison Bergeron" first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in 1961.

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)