Read this excerpt from "The Legend." Let the night sky cover him as he dies. Let the weaver girl cross the bridge of heaven and take up his cold hands. In this excerpt, the speaker's wish for the man relates to which theme?

Dying is a natural part of the life process.

Explanation:

In this excerpt, the speaker's wish for the man relates to the theme that dying is a natural part of life process.

The theme of a story simply means the moral lesson which the story is conveying. In the excerpt, the speaker is telling the readers that dying is a natural process and it's a normal phenomenon.

According to the sentences in the excerpt "Let the night sky cover him as he dies. Let the weaver girl cross the bridge of heaven and take up his cold hands". The shows that the speaker believes it's a natural process to die and that it's part of life.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)