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Question 1 Read the following passage and write a brief paragraph that identifies: a) the subject of the passage b) the author's purpose for writing c) the intended audience d) the tone of the piece, and e) the perspective or point of view. Be sure that your paragraph has a topic sentence that identifies the subject, and provide evidence (quotes) from the excerpt to support each part of the analysis. "I have seen the extreme vanity of this world: One hour I have been in health, and wealthy, wanting nothing. But the next hour in sickness and wounds, and death had nothing but sorrow and affliction. Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it. When I lived in prosperity, having the comforts of the world about me, my relations by me, my heart cheerful, and taking little care for anything, and yet seeing many, whom I preferred before myself, under many trials and afflictions, in sickness, weakness, poverty, losses, crosses, and cares of the world, I should be sometimes jealous least I should have my portion in this life, and that Scripture would come to my mind, "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every Son whom he receiveth" (Hebrews 12.6). But now I see the Lord had His time to scourge and chasten me." [Author: Rowlandson, Mary White, 1635-1710 Title: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Publisher: Project Gutenberg] QUESTION 2 Read the following passage and write a brief paragraph that identifies: a) the subject of the passage b) the author's purpose for writing c) the intended audience d) the tone of the piece, and e) the perspective or point of view. Be sure that your paragraph has a topic sentence that identifies the subject, and provide evidence (quotes) from the excerpt to support each part of the analysis. "All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

 It was granted ye dangers were great, but not desperate; the difficulties were many, but not invincible. For though there were many of them likely, yet they were not certain; it might be sundrie of ye things feared might never before; others by providence care and ye use of good means, might in a great measure be prevented; and all of them, though ye help of God, by fortitude and patience, might either be borne, or overcome." [From the journal of William Bradford] QUESTION 3 Read the following passage and write a brief paragraph that identifies: a) the subject of the passage b) the author's purpose for writing c) the intended audience d) the tone of the piece, and e) the perspective or point of view. Be sure that your paragraph has a topic sentence that identifies the subject, and provide evidence (quotes) from the excerpt to support each part of the analysis. "At his entrance before the king, all the people gave a great shout. The queen of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, instead of a towel to dry them: having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains, Pocahontas the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death: whereat the Emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves. For the king himself will make his own robes, shoes, bows, arrows, pots; plant, hunt, or do anything so well as the rest." [The Settlement Of Jamestown - 1607 by Captain John Smith; third book of the five volume "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles: Together with The True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar" (London, 1624)] QUESTION 4 Read the following passage and write a brief paragraph that identifies: a) the subject of the passage b) the author's purpose for writing c) the intended audience d) the tone of the piece, and e) the perspective or point of view. Be sure that your paragraph has a topic sentence that identifies the subject, and provide evidence (quotes) from the excerpt to support each part of the analysis. 

"Then I started back, with more fear than food, and went to meet the people whom I had left behind, with the greatest haste I could make. I overtook them after two day's march and went with them till we had passed the desert and arrived at their home. Here I was not made welcome as previously, because the men as well as the women indulged in much weeping for the persons killed at Cíbola. Without tarrying I hastened in fear from that people and that valley. The first day I went ten leagues, then I went eight and again ten leagues, without stopping till I had passed the second desert. On my return, although I was not without fear, I determined to approach the open tract, situated at the end of the mountain ranges, of which I said above that I had some account. As I came near, I was informed that it is peopled for many days' journey towards the east, but I dared not enter it, because it seemed to me that we must go to colonize and to rule that other country of the seven cities and the kingdoms I have spoken of, and that then one could see it better. So I forebore to risk my person and left it alone to given an account of what I had seen. 

However, I saw, from the mouth of the tract seven moderate-sized towns at some distance, and further a very fresh valley of very good land, whence rose much smoke. I was informed that there is much gold in it and that the natives of it deal in vessels and jewels for the ears and little plates with which they scrape themselves to relieve themselves of sweat, and that these people will not consent to trade with those of the other part of the valley; but I was not able to learn the cause for this. Here I placed two crosses and took possession of all this plain and valley in the same manner as I had done with the other possessions, according to my instructions." [From Marcos de Niza, Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cíbola..."A Relation Of The Reverend Father Fray." The Relatión was written in 1539. It first became available to an English-reading audience in the third volume of the final edition of Richard Hakluyt's Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (London: 1598-1600)]