During two separate classes i was pair up with different partners to close read passages from Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here". With my partner Stacy we read Colonel Dewey Haik's summarized version of Buzz Windrip's speech. during our close read Stacy and I were very confused and asked our professor for assistance. he then confirmed our initial thoughts. the speech was supposed to confuse the listeners. the speech was basically trying to sell its listeners a dream. Buzz had one goal in mind, wealth for himself and by doing that he wanted to separated the poor/working class and wealthy. Buzz also wanted to keep business in America and close outside embargo while arming america for an upcoming war. Buzz Windrip's speech had few elements of fascism, confusing people, separating classes of people, and having a scapegoat to place the blame on. With Antonio we were required to close read chapter 19. we needed to find out why the minutemen prevent Doremus from getting lynched by the minute men. Doremus had written an anti dictatorship editorial the lynch mob of minute men consisted of all types of people, many of them did not care about the insults to the corpo state they just wanted to join in the violence. The only reason that I believe Doremus did not get lynch was because Shad Leude, Doremus' former gardener turned minute man comissioner stopped the soldiers from lynching him. Shad believed Doremus was a valuable asset to them because he would be able to use his newspaper to influence more people. Instead of killing Doremus the minute men were going to take over his newspaper and put it to use for their own causes.
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