20 read an excerpt from "remembering rosa parks" by jennifer granholm: but rosa parks was also a warrior for the everyman and the everywoman. she was a warrior with the soft armor of a seamstress; a warrior with the powerful weapon of the sunday school teacher; a warrior wearing a warrior's helmet made of a crown of perfectly coiled braids; a soldier whose tank in this battle was a city bus; an improbable warrior leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics; a warrior protected in this army by the piercing weapons of love and non-violence, more powerful than any weapons or any army before or since. which theme is developed by this excerpt? a. life is a war zone that requires an army of people. b. an unlikely leader can fight battles for common folk. c. fight everyday battles with powerful weapons. d. a mighty warrior can be a seamstress in disguise.

The correct answer is B. An unlikely leader can fight battles for common folk.

Explanation:

In literature, the word theme refers to a deep message or underlying idea developed during a text and that is usually related to some aspect of life such as love, death or war and that the author wants the audience to understand. Most themes are not stated in an explicit way, but rather developed during a story or text through different elements in it.

In the excerpt presented a character who is Rosa Parks is being described by the narrator, the narrator refers to Rosa as "a warrior for everyman and the every woman" and then describes elements related to a warrior such as using a seamstress as an armor, using a city bus as a tank battle, leading an army of waitresses, street sweepers  and using love as a weapon, which shows the main character is somehow a warrior that needs to fight battles for people without being in a real war. This suggests the general or underlying idea (theme) that someone who might not be considered as a leader or warrior can still fight battles to help, support or protect common people or that an unlikely leader can fight battles for common folk.

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)