Read the excerpt from black boy. again i was faced with choices i did not like, but i finally agreed. after all, my hate for my father was not so great and urgent as my hate for the orphan home. my mother held to her idea and one night a week or so later i found myself standing in a room in a frame house. my father and a strange woman were sitting before a bright fire that blazed in a grate. my mother and i were standing about six feet away, as though we were afraid to approach them any closer. wright explains his difficult choice in this excerpt in order to show that he was
willing to do anything to leave the orphanage.
trying to do anything to his mother.
afraid of his father and the strange woman.
angry at his father and the strange woman.

Wright explains his difficult choice in this excerpt in order to show that he was  willing to do anything to leave the orphanage.

Explanation:

Richard Wright in his autobiography "Black Boy" recounts his childhood of poverty and hardships that he and his family had to suffer, added to his father Nathaniel Wright abandoning them. The given passage shows his conflicting nature of living at home and not in the orphanage. But due to their financial issues, that was not an easy thing to arrange. Through the above excerpt, Wright explains his difficult choice in order t show that he was willing to do anything as long as he can leave the orphanage.

The best answer to the question: Wright explains his difficult choice in this excerpt in order to show that he was:___, would be: Willing to do anything to leave the orphanage.

Explanation:

"Black Boy" is an autobiographical non-fiction story that was wriiten by Richard Wright and which was originally finished in 1943, but did not become published officially until 1945. This story narrates the events in the life of the author himself, as he experienced life as a poor black person in the America of the 1920´s both in the South, where he is from, and in the North, where he moves to as he becomes older. Throughout that life, and especially during his childhood years, which in the autobiography appear under the title "Souther Night", Wright experiences what it means to live in total poverty, experience living with a sick mother, an absentee father, religious fanatical family, and also orphanages. In the end, as the author himself explains, he much rather prefer to go with his father, whom he hates, rather than live in an orphanage, and that is why he ends up supporting his mother´s idea of going to find his father. The hate for the orphanage supersedes the hate for his father. This is why the first option is the best answer.

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)

a. is the correct answer