Answer:
The soldiers A) felt that their efforts were not successful.
Explanation:
From the excerpt we are studying here, we can tell that soldiers were mistaken in their first judgment of their enemy. They thought they would easily win over a bunch of "peasant guerrillas" only to find themselves being killed each week. When the narrator says, "the blood being spilled broke our early confidence" he means soldiers now understood their efforts were not being successful.
This excerpt was taken from "A Rumor of War", a memoir by Philip Caputo. Caputo - who joined the war at first for the excitement the danger caused in him and for the ideal of serving his country - soon realized his mistake. Instead of coming back home filled with heroic stories about epic battles, the author says his own story is boring. Battles would last forever, American soldiers would keep on dying while the enemy hid in jungles full of traps and snipers.
The term used to describe an underlying message that ties a piece of writing together is D - a plot.
<span>A plot is also known as the storyline or the narrative of the story. It is the outline of the piece of writing. The plot is made up of a series of casual events. It brings all the different elements of the story together to form a cohesive unit. The plot is used as a vehicle to drive the underlying message home. </span>
Answer:
"A weasel doesn't “attack” anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to...”
Dillard uses the weasel metaphor to defend how it is important that every person find what he/she feels the need to do in life and that they stick with it.
