Reread lines 5-26. What clues in the entry helps readers make inferences about why “Mr. Kugler hasn’t been able to find anyone else to fill the packages” of powdered gravy?

Dearest Kitty,
This morning I was constantly interrupted, and as a result
I haven’t been able to finish a single thing I’ve begun.
We have a new pastime, namely, filling packages with
powdered gravy. The gravy is one of Gies Co.’s1[1] products.
Mr. Kugler hasn’t been able to find anyone else to fill the
packages, and besides, it’s cheaper if we do the job. It’s the
kind of work they do in prisons. It’s incredibly boring and
makes us dizzy and giggly.
Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of
night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of
their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these
possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women
and children are separated. Children come home from school
to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return
from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.
The Christians in Holland are also living in fear because
their sons are being sent to Germany. Everyone is scared.
Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland on their
way to German cities, to sow their bombs on German soil.
Every hour hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of people are
being killed in Russia and Africa. No one can keep out of the
conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the Allies[2]
are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.

Mr. Kugler hasn't been able to find anyone else to fill the packages because it was cheaper for him that Anne and her family fill the packages and because he wanted to give them a new pastime, as they didn't have any other activities to do.

We could also say that Mr. Kugler could not find anyone else to do that job because it as incredibly boring and it was the kind of work people do in prisons.

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)