5) Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of
a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a
comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as
well as its aesthetic impact.

The story I'm reading " In Cold Blood" is a story about a family of four who got murdered and there was no apparent motive for the crime and there was almost no clues left in which who killed them.  The authors choice of structure of the story begins in the begging where they talked about the family and jumped right into the murder scene. The Clutter family, was a family who was well known lived in a town where everyone knew them and got along. There was no reason at all that anybody disliked them. They had a sweet daughter name Nancy age 16, and a boy name Kenyon age 15. There mother name is Bonnie and there father name is  Herb. One night, a friend of Nancy's was suppose to come over and found them all dead. Nobody knew who could of done such thing to them. 
  The overall structure and the meaning of this was that the author wanted readers to get hooked into the book by talking about the murder in the begging rather than the end. It also involves they story of two individuals, Dick and Perry. Dick and Perry were both prisoners who meet at the Kansas State Prison. The author also talks about them in the story and some how they end up in the murder scene of the Clutters.

1) Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining
where the text leaves matters uncertain.


      On the worksheet "Death with dignity", it talked about if other states should adopt the law of "death with dignity". A women was diagnosed with a severe tumor in her brain that would take her life in six months. She does not want to die knowing that the tumor will soon grow and make her weak. She rather die with dignity by taking prescriptive medicine that will peacefully kill her without suffering. Only five states have this law. But the question is should other states adopt this law? In the text, it said that if other States adopt this law a lot of sick elderly would want to die with dignity, as well as many sick people. Also in order for them to "die with dignity", they have to take some test to prove that it is very severe. Once approve they have the choice. But should other States adopt this law?
   

6) Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is
directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or
understatement).

The Story, "Shooting an Elephant" is about a early moment in Orwell's life when his sense of injustices surfaced. This story has irony and tone. The tone of this story was basically angry. There were lots of powerful words being used such as hatred, intolerable, ravaging and upsetting. Orwell used these words to describe how he didnt like his job and other things. He didnt like how things weren't treated the way they were suppose to be treated. For example, Orwell worked at a Empire of close quarters. He hated how prisoners were mistreated bad. Orwell described the prisoners how they were wretched prisoners huddling in the sinking cages. Also Orwell's tone of when he had to watch the elephant, making sure it did not cause any danger to the people was worried. Orwell had a worry tone because he did not want to kill the elephant, if the elephant were to cause any danger he would have no other choose but to kill it.

The irony of the story is that he mentioned how people in town where he lived seemed to have nothing to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans.