What was Beowulf's riskiest risk?

Beowulf is an early medieval text that survives in just one manuscript: Cotton Vitellius A, also called the Nowell Codex of the British Library. It also contains Wonders of the East, Judith, and Letters of Alexander to Aristotle, as well as other Old English works. Beowulf is one of less explicitly Christian works in the codex, though it is still Christian.

Beowulf risks death for glory three times in Beowulf. His first risky action is coming to save the Danes from the monster Grendel, who sneaks into Heorot at night and devours warriors. He knows that he could perish, but would rather die a glorious death than live a long, unremarkable life. Beowulf's second significant risk occurs when he hunts down Grendel's mother, who has decided to take vengeance for her injured, dying son. Beowulf dives into a deep lake to seek out the mother and kill her. Beowulf's final great deed is his attack on a fire-breathing dragon that is terrorizing his people. Beowulf manages to kill the dragon, but dies in the process. He thus gains glory and is immortalized forever in a barrow on a sea cliff and in the Beowulf poem.

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)