Source Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917), 32-37. 1. Irony is defined as an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. Identify one example of irony in "The Boys' Ambition" and explain why it's amusing.
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2. Why does Twain spend so much time describing the town he grew up in, the steamboat, and the cub-engineer?
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3. Choose one passage that was especially powerful for you. Explain why it can be affected so strongly to anyone.
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1. "... now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." Esse é um exemplo de ironia porque faz com que o leitor acredito que os garotos querem que Deus os abençoe com um profissão honrada e honesta, mas eles querem ser piratas.

2. Porque ele deseja ambientar o leitor aos elementos que tem influencia em sua narrativa. A utilização de vários adjetivos promove um descrição detalhada sobre esses elementos, ambientando o leitor e fazendo com que o eleitor conheça-os.

3. “Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.”

Explanation:

1. Boys show that they want to be God-fearing, honest and live well, so that God can reward them. When we read this we believe that they want such a good and honorable reward, but they want to be pirates. This is a strong example of irony in Mark Twain's writing and adds a fun element to the story, showing how inconsequential and random children are in their desires.

2. In his writing, Twain uses several adjectives in order to describe the city in which he grew up, the steamboat and the cub engineer in detail, making the reader well aware of these elements and thus efficiently understanding the its influence and importance in the plot.

3. The passage “Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life," is very powerful and shows how the good life, satisfaction and peace that every human being deserves is the result of small and simple things It doesn’t take much to contemplate the ideal life In this passage Twain also reveals that the ideal life is one full of elements that bring us peace.

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)

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