Merry Christmas Everyone!
May God Bless You all!

Line 1 of this excerpt features a strong example of

3. what is the purpose of a lead sentence or paragraph? to display your most convincing reasons and arguments to you revise the overall structure of your work to interest readers and introduce your writing style to add details and elaborate on your ideas

What central idea does this passage develop? the impact of fate the integrity of leaders the ruthlessness of power the importance of friendship