Which excerpt from The Great Fire reflects the theme that rebuilding is possible after a disaster if people join together? An exhausted Chamberlin came to the Randolph Street Bridge and discovered “a torrent of humanity pouring over the bridge.”
A few were rushing to get out a special edition about the fire, while the rest were on the roof hosing it down with water.
“He had taken a dray, but was unable to load all of his goods into the vehicle, so he employed half a dozen boys, gave each of them a coffin, took a large one himself, and headed the weird procession…”
“It [was] common to see ten or a dozen or fifty houses rising at once; but when one looks upon, not a dozen or fifty, but upon ten thousand houses rising and ten times that number of busy workmen coming and going …”