How is the speaker's description of his father teaching him to drive important to the poem? A) The speaker needs to learn how to teach someone to drive.
B) The speaker never learned to drive and this memory haunts him.
C) The speaker highlights how his father was "all praise", despite the mistake the speaker made while learning.
D) The speaker and his father had a bad relationship.

C) The speaker highlights how his father was "all praise", despite the mistake the speaker made while learning.

Explanation:

In Route 1 North, Philadelphia to Highland Park by Hayes Davis, the a speaker learns how to drive with his dad.

The poem explores the theme of family, importance of parents instilling confidence in children.  In the poem the speaker’s dad seems to have died in the past 10 years. Moreover, we also learn of a son’s need for praise from his father. Every son alive can feel this in the poem. The speaker's description of his father teaching him to drives refers to the confidence that the speaker's father instilled in the speaker when his father was teaching him to drive

In this poem, the speaker looks back on a memory from his adolescence and  the speaker describes how his father helped develop his confidence. The speaker today as an adult says when anybody asks how did he imagine his father, the speaker says he remembers his father never held praise too tightly, that his father knew confidence as a secured or precious thing, which instilling in children was as vital as anything that a father gives his son.

Children who feel confident about themselves believe in doing new things. They will do the job more certainly. They are proud of what they can achieve. Self-confidence allows children to cope with mistake.

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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)

1# the answer is c

2#the answer is a