Read the excerpt from dispatches. i remembered the way a phantom pilot had talked about how beautiful the surface-to-air missiles looked as they drifted up toward his plane to kill him, and remembered myself how lovely .50-caliber tracers could be, coming at you as you flew at night in a helicopter, how slow and graceful, arching up easily, a dream, so remote from anything that could harm you. based on the sensory details, what can be inferred about the narrator’s feelings toward the airstrikes he witnessed? he was fascinated by the way they looked. he became drowsy from their slowness. he despised them because they were destructive. he feared them for their unpredictability.

A - he was fascinated by the way they looked

Explanation:

They way the author describes the surface to air missiles as being 'lovely' and 'slow and graceful, 'a dream' shows that he enjoyed watching them. He even says that they were 'so remote from anything that could harm you.'

He was fascinated by the way they looked.

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from "Dispatches," the narrator finds airstrikes extremely interesting. In that matter, he makes use of the words beautiful, lovely, graceful and dream to describe them. Besides, he mentions that air-missiles looked "remote from anything that could harm you," so they also made him feel safe.

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)

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.