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read the passages. now jim was a dreamer, but he was a thinker, too. and he thought one day that if he let his owner meet the cooter, he might get his freedom that way. after all, a talkin cooter was a wonderful thing to hear. so jim went on back to the plantation. he found the slaveowner, and he says, “mas, i wanter tell you about this cooter down there at the pond.” i ran away from the plantation and all who i knew there. i lived in the fields and in the woods. even in caves. sometimes i slept up in the tree branches. or in a hay pile. i couldn’t get across the river now, it was watched so closely. finally, i did get across. late one night me and my wife went. i had gone back to the plantation to get her. mr. rankins had him a bell by this time, along with the light. we were rowin and rowin. we could see the light and hear that bell, but it seemed we weren't getting any closer. it took forever, it seemed. that was because we were so scared and it was so dark and we knew we could get caught and never get gone. —“carrying the running-aways,” virginia hamiltonread the passages. then, write two to three sentences comparing jim’s viewpoint on escaping from slavery with the nonfiction narrator’s viewpoint on escaping from slavery.

i decided to stay late in the laboratory to continue my experiment with the lightbulb. at midnight, thomas edison opened the door and saw all the stuff he was working on. the lightbulb, film and the transmitter. as he walks in an idea hits him on how the lightbulb would work. he would have to change a few wires around to get it to light up. when he did change the wires around it worked so he decided to write a telegraph to his friend to tell him about his success.   as he was packing up he grabbed the telegraph and walked to his home. he told his wife about the success and the next morning mailed the telegraph.

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "