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Shirley Jackson is the author of "The Lottery."
The setting of the story is an old United States town, a place where people are farmers and plot the land. From the description of the weather, it appears that it is summertime. It seems to be that the place is a quite normal rural American town with nothing interesting happening there. When the reader realizes that people in that town have common daily conversations such as taxes, tractors, and the harvest, the reader never suspects what horrible things are happening in the town until the end of the story. Nobody can imagine what the stones are for.
Answer: The right answer is the C) The first excerpt makes a logical appeal, while the second excerpt makes an emotional appeal.
Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that in the first excerpt the author is using a very forceful piece of evidence - a passage from the Declaration of Independence - to support his claim and convince his audience to do the same. However, in the second excerpt he is trying to get an emotional reaction from his readers by addressing them very passionately, boldly and persuasively. He is willing to reject the Declaration of Independence and to burn it, and he goes as far as to refer to slave owners as beasts or animals - those "other men" that "choose to go upon all fours." Furthermore, he is also willing to accuse "this nation" (and those are many people) of falsifying God's principles if they denounce him for following His example, and that must have been a very grave accusation at that time when he penned this terrific speech (1854).
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