In the adapted excerpt from Herman Melville's short story "The Lightning-Rod Man," which two statements best support an objective summary of the excerpt?
Hark! There go all the granite Taconics and Hoosics dashed together like pebbles. By the sound, that must have struck something. An elevation of five feet above the house, will protect twenty feet radius all about the rod. Only twenty dollars, sir—a dollar a foot. Hark!—Dreadful!—Will you order? Will you buy? Shall I put down your name? Think of a heap of charred wood and all in one flash!"
"You pretended envoy extraordinary and an agent to and from Jupiter Tonans," laughed I; "you mere man who come here to put you and your pipestem between clay and sky, do you think that because you can strike a bit of green light from the Leyden jar, that you can thoroughly avert the supernal bolt? Your rod rusts, or breaks, and where are you? Who has empowered you, you Tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations? The hairs of our heads are numbered, and the days of our lives. In thunder as in sunshine, I stand at ease. False negotiator, away! See, the scroll of the storm is rolled back; the house is unharmed; and in the blue heavens I read in the rainbow, and will not make war on man's earth."
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Hark! There go all the granite Taconics and Hoosics dashed together like pebbles. By the sound, that must have struck something. An elevation of five feet above the house, will protect twenty feet radius all about the rod. Only twenty dollars, sir—a dollar a foot. Hark!—Dreadful!—Will you order? Will you buy? Shall I put down your name? Think of a heap of charred wood and all in one flash!"
"You pretended envoy extraordinary and an agent to and from Jupiter Tonans," laughed I; "you mere man who come here to put you and your pipestem between clay and sky, do you think that because you can strike a bit of green light from the Leyden jar, that you can thoroughly avert the supernal bolt? Your rod rusts, or breaks, and where are you? Who has empowered you, you Tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations? The hairs of our heads are numbered, and the days of our lives. In thunder as in sunshine, I stand at ease. False negotiator, away! See, the scroll of the storm is rolled back; the house is unharmed; and in the blue heavens I read in the rainbow, and will not make war on man's earth."
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The two statements that best support an objective summary of the excerpt from Herman Melville's short story "The Lightning-Rod Man" are:
"An elevation of five feet above the house, will protect twenty feet radius all about the rod. Only twenty dollars, sir—a dollar a foot."
"You pretended envoy extraordinary and an agent to and from Jupiter Tonans," laughed I; "you mere man who come here to put you and your pipestem between clay and sky, do you think that because you can strike a bit of green light from the Leyden jar, that you can thoroughly avert the supernal bolt? Your rod rusts, or breaks, and where are you? Who has empowered you, you Tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations?"
The first statement is an objective summary of the excerpt because it describes the offer of the lightning-rod man, who is selling a device that he claims will protect the house from lightning strikes. He states that the rod will protect a twenty-foot radius around the house if it is elevated five feet above the roof, and that the cost of the rod is twenty dollars. This statement provides specific details about the product being offered, and it is not influenced by the speaker's personal opinion.
The second statement is also an objective summary of the excerpt because it describes the speaker's response to the lightning-rod man's offer. The speaker criticizes the man by calling him a "pretended envoy extraordinary" and an "agent to and from Jupiter Tonans." He also questions the man's ability to protect the house from lightning strikes, pointing out that the rod could rust or break. The speaker implies that the lightning-rod man is trying to make money by selling something that is not effective. This statement also provides specific details about the speaker's response to the product being offered, and it is not influenced by the speaker's personal opinion.
In summation, these two statements provide an objective summary of the excerpt by describing the product being offered and the speaker's response to it, without being influenced by personal opinion.
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