A summary of the samurai's tale?

In the story “The Samuri’s Tale,” a boy named Murakami lost his mom and dad at a very young age. He had a servant named Yoichi. He was captured by officer Akiyama and was taken to lord Akiyama to be his servant. When Murakami first became his servant he worked in the kitchen. He pleased lord Akiyama very much, so lord Akiyama decided to have Murakami work in the stables with all of the horses. He worked there for a while and then became a messenger/ young samuri. Murakami began by just delivering messages to other important people in Japan. He also had a job of helping the other servants of lord Akiyama if the other leaders or lord Akiyama were not there to help. I personally did not like the book at all because there was no action what so ever. You would think that with a title like “The Samuri’s Tale” that there would be action in it, but not in this story. The only action in the story was in the beginning when his mom and dad died in the first couple of pages.

Explanation:

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)