What is the main idea? Transcript of Coach Boone’s speech to his team at Gettysburg: “Anybody know what this place is? This is
Gettysburg. This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on
this field, fighting the same fight that we’re still fighting amongst ourselves today. This green field right
here was painted red, bubbling with the blood of young boys, smoke and hot lead pouring right through
their bodies. Listen to their souls, men: ‘I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my
family.’ You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don’t come together, right now, on this
hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed – just like they were. I don’t care if you like each other or
not. But you will respect each other. And maybe – I don’t know – maybe we’ll learn to play this game
like men.”

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.