On page 82, Sandy and Judge Ford discuss the possibility that Sam
Westing "just up and died, and there is
no murderer...Westing is out to get
somebody from his grave." If this is
true, who would Westing be out to get?
Why?

If Sandy's opinion is true, then it means Westing is out to get his killer revealed.

He would do this to catch his murderer, to find the culprit responsible for his death.

Explanation:

Ellen Raskin's "The Westing Game" revolves around the story of an old man Westing's death and the subsequent will that he left, with the declaration that he was murdered. The story follows the 16 heirs of Samuel Westing and their game that will ensure the winner will get the inheritance.

When Sam Westing died and he declared in his will that he was murdered, most probably by one of his 16 heirs, he proposed a game that will reveal the identity of the killer. So, if Sandy's opinion that "Westing is out to get somebody from his grave" is true, then it means Westing wants to get his killer.

He would be out to get the killer because he is the one who murdered him.

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)

98 points!

assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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