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Using the text below, select the best summary of what the author accomplished in this section from the answer choices.

I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby's mansion. Or rather, as I didn't know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name. My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.

~Chapter 1, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The narrator was jealous of all the expensive houses around him.
The narrator was highlighting the differences in the social classes that were around him.
The narrator was attempting to illustrate the financial differences in West Egg.
The narrator was illustrating the coincidence that he lived in such a small, shabby house in comparison to the rich estates around him.



Using the text below, select the best paraphrase from the answer choices.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

~John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1963

Americans need to be the change for the world.
My fellow Americans and my fellow citizens of the world: ask yourselves what you can do for the liberation of man.
The people of the world should not depend on Americans for freedom, but they should work with Americans for people to be free. Similarly, the people of the United States should not ask what America can do for them, but what they can do to help America.
Nothing happens unless the government steps in to get things done.

Answer 1

The best summary of what the author accomplished in the first text is that The narrator was highlighting the differences in the social classes that were around him. And in the second text My fellow Americans and my fellow citizens of the world: ask yourselves what you can do for the liberation of man.

Because the author of  The Great Gatsby centers on Jay Gatsby, a man whose life revolves on his desire to reunite with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years ago. Gatsby's journey takes him from destitution to riches, into the arms of his sweetheart, and ultimately to his demise.

The Great Gatsby, a detached narrative that captures the extravagance and depravity that enveloped America in the 1920s, prior to the Great Depression, is Fitzgerald's best-known work. And the author of  Inaugural Address major objective was to motivate Americans. to encourage Americans to serve their country and the globe by reassuring them of the nation's strengths.

Kennedy calls for cooperation between the people of the United States and other countries to advance rights and freedom in his address. Kennedy addresses his audience, which also consists of his workers, people, and other countries. He wanted to inspire and instill optimism in the American people with his inaugural speech.

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