Write a formal five minute speech comparing twain's life on the mississippi and douglass's narrative of the life of frederick douglass an american slave for the benefit of adults in a book club who are trying to select their next reading choice.

someone me i have no clue what i need to even put!

Explanation:

This is asking you to write a speech. If you need to learn how to write a formal speech, I would suggest you to look that up, as I am not knowledgeable on the topic. However, I can tell you what you need to put.

Utilize excerpts or other transcripts of the two books, Life on The Mississippi, and the auto biography of Frederick Douglass, and treat this as if it was a compare and contrast essay, whilst still confining to the formats of a formal speech. This is also a bit of an informational speech, so I would suggest trying to mix the two category's techniques.

When you're writing and you think you're finished, read it out and time yourself. If you're under 5 minutes, then you need to lengthen it.

answer :

the idiom "pride goes before a fall" means that being too proud causes one to make mistakes that eventually lead to failure or downfall.

in the stranger's story in the "the storyteller," bertha had won three medals for obedience, punctuality and good manners. she was really proud of her medals and pinned them to her dress and wore them everywhere she went so that everyone would know how good she was. in the end, these symbols of her excessive pride cost her her life. when she was hiding from the wolf in the bushes, it was the clinking of her medals that alerted his attention towards her presence and lead to her death.