Suppose that FUTILE waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young. Use context to determine the meaning of the word futile as it is used in “Marigolds.” Write your definition of futile here and explain which details from the text helped you determine its meaning.

The meaning of the word Futile means pointless or fruitless.

Explanation:

"Marigold" depicts the narrative of a young woman who recalls her days as a girl through adolescence into adulthood with many of those years spent under the burden of slavery.

The sentence which holds the word futile is found in the first three lines of the third paragraph.

As the reader goes on, they'd find that the writer narrates [in paragraph 3, sentence 5] how though it was fruitless to hope or wait for poverty, suffering and hunger to abate, it still was required for one to cling to that hope in order to survive the following day.

Cheers.

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)