Read this excerpt from the land.

robert’s grandma on his mama’s side always hated the fact that my daddy allowed cassie and me to sit at his table and enjoy the life she felt was owed only to her daughter’s children. when the daughter died, her mother was there in my daddy’s house. of course, i was only a baby at the time, but later i grew to know her hatred. she had stayed on in my daddy’s house and took over running it. i remember she was always hard on my mama, and on cassie and me. when my daddy was away during mealtime, she would send cassie and me from the table. when that happened, robert always went with me, and she couldn’t make him come back. worse than that, she would sometimes say cruel things to us. “they’re like mites,” she said once. “you get them in your bed, and you don’t ever get rid of them.”

what is the best way to summarize how the author uses theme in the excerpt?

the author introduces a new minor theme through the grandma’s actions.
the author develops the existing major theme through grandma’s actions.
the author sums up the existing major theme through grandma’s dialogue.
the author explains the new minor theme through grandma’s dialogue.

Me for the love of god. i've been working on this assignment for 3 days and i don't understand the speeches at all ive read both 4 times over and i don't understand either of them if your right i will give you brainlest (i think that's how you spell it) and 99 pts. for this assignment, you will write an evaluation of either of two historic passages. • patrick henry’s “give me liberty, or give me death! ” speech (1775) • frederick douglass’s address, “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” (1852) 1. what is the speaker’s viewpoint? what is his claim? type your answer here. (score for question 2: of 2 points) 2. what reasons does the speaker provide to support his viewpoint or claim? type your answer here. (score for question 3: of 4 points) 3. how valid are the speaker’s reasons for his claim? use evidence from the text to support your answer. type your answer here. (score for question 4: of 2 points) 4. what evidence does the speaker provide to support his reasons? type your answer here. (score for question 5: of 4 points) 5. is the speaker’s evidence relevant and sufficient? use evidence from the text to support your answer. type your answer here. (score for question 6: of 4 points) 6. does the speaker use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies? use evidence from the text to support your answers. type your answer here. (score for question 7: of 4 points) 7. what counterclaims or alternate claims does the speaker address, and how does he respond to them? type your answer here. (score for question 8: of 4 points) 8. how effective is the speaker’s response to counterclaims or alternate claims? use evidence from the text to support your answer. type your answer here. (score for question 9: of 4 points) 9. write a one-paragraph evaluation of the speaker’s argument. type your answer here.