What is the theme of “The Boy Who Didn't Want to Catch"? What is the lesson, the message?
How do you know? (direct words from the story)

The theme of the story is of courage and perseverance. The message is that you must give your all when reaching your goals, not for the prize but for the experience. We can see this idea from the lines: "David began to understand what was most important. It wasn’t just the results. It was how hard one worked to achieve those results."

Explanation: “The Boy Who Didn't Want to Catch" is a story about a respectful boy who loved playing baseball. When a member of the team gets injured, the boy is told to take his place. However, he didn't want to catch because he was afraid to be a failure to his team. When he spoke to Sammy, the injured teammate, he began to understand that is not about the final destination but about the journey, and thus his soul was relieved and he enjoyed the game, due to his courage and perseverance.

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)

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explanation:

seeing as this is your first question on i can see why you may have not known that you need to provide the passage.

without the passage, or even the name of the passage, we can not read the passage, therefore we can not determine when or how the pacing effects the tone.

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