Heplll noww read the excerpt below and answer the question. "mrs. hutchinson? oh, mrs. hutchinson." thelma batted her eyes. "naw, precious, she come on thursday and didn't ev'n mention your name. i doubt if she ev'n knows you're on the way." "thelma! " cried leota staunchly. in this excerpt from "the petrified man," why does leota get upset at thelma's comment? a)leota does not want thelma to distract her customer with idle gossip. b)mrs. fletcher does not want anyone to know that she is going to be a mother. c)no one is supposed to know that mrs. fletcher is on her way to new orleans. d)thelma is not allowed to talk about her other customers with mrs. fletcher.

The petrified man is a short story by Eudora Welty published in 1939 it centers its attention in two gossiping ladies at a cosmetic shop.

B)Mrs. Fletcher does not want anyone to know that she is going to be a mother.

As mrs fletcher is pregnant and doesn´t want people to gossip about her, she gets mad at the fact that se realizes that people is talking about her.

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)

d understatement