Hello. You did not provide the excerpt to which this question refers. Which makes it impossible for it to be answered accurately. However, I will try to help you in the best possible way.
To be able to understand Cal's point of view about himself, you have to read the text and recognize the tone that the text emits. The tone is the feeling that the text gives to the reader. If that tone conveys a positive feeling, it means that Cal's view of him is also positive. If the tone expresses a negative feeling, it means that the lime view on itself is reactive.
Find the verb first.
-told
ask who or what to find the subject.
told who or what?
Mr.Archer
ask who or what to find direct object.
Mr.Archer told who or what?
history
ask to who or to what to find indirect object.
Mr.Archer told history to who or to what?
us.
so, "us" is an indirect object.
Answer:
These are the lines that are found toward the end of the poem. Beowulf is already dead - he has defeated the dragon, but has also died in the process. Before his death, he instructed his men to build a tower in his honor, so this part of the poem talks about that. It talks about how the Geats made this monument for their late king, and how they grieved his death by telling his greatest accomplishments, like defeating Grendel and his mother. Then they hid the dragon's treasures in the tower, as per Beowulf's instructions, so that no one could ever find them.
The Civil War had a greater impact on American society and the polity than any other event in the country's history. It was also the most traumatic experience endured by any generation of Americans. At least 620,000 soldiers lost their lives in the war, 2 percent of the American population in 1861