Throughout the novel Voltaire employs the element of setting to signify the importance of distorted societal values. Candide grows up in beautiful castle in Westphalia; he is a young man of suspicious birth. Voltaire begins with this setting so he can expose the warped values that are related to social status.
Here is the question
Choose the revision of sentence 8 that is most appropriate for a
persuasive proposal
here are the choices
All of the collections from the food drive will go to the local food
bank to be sent out to local families who are in need of the service.
All of the collections from the food drive will go to the local food
bank to be sent out to local families who are really needy.
All of the collections from the food drive will go to the local food
bank to be sent out to local families who do not have any money or food.
All of the collections from the food drive will go to the local food
bank to be sent out to local families who can't afford food because they
spend their money unwisely.
The sentence is appropriate as is.
The sentence is drawing a parallel between the two parties' reasons for going to war. Each of them is associated with a verb: one with "survive," the other with "perish." They are the two antonyms.
Antonyms are words which have opposite meanings. <em>Survive </em>means to contine living, and <em>perish </em>means to stop living.
What Lincoln meant by using this antonym-based parallelism is that the Confederacy fought to end the exisiting nation (meaning, to secede from the North and create a new nation), while the Union fought to keep the nation alive by preventing it from splitting.
