Which statement is a theme?
the story teaches the importance of devoted friends.
gilgamesh delivers an encouraging speech to enkidu.
when humbaba is defeated, the friends rejoice.
true friends remain loyal despite hardship.

Answer is D.

Explanation:

The theme is basically something you can learn from the story.

True friends remain loyal despite hardship.  

Explanation:

The theme is the message or life lesson that a story conveys about a topic. That message, which can be more than one, is not explicitly stated in the story, so the reader has to discover it on its own and express it in a single sentence. So, if a story's topic is "friendship" and "loyalty", for example, a message that the narrative conveys about that topic may be: True friends remain loyal despite hardship.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

thurgood marshall

explanation: in 1954, thurgood marshall and a team of naacp attorneys won brown v. board of education of topeka, kansas. in this landmark decision, the supreme court held that segregation in public education violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.