Chapter 2: The Stone is FoundPreface A large, heavy package arrived at the scholars’ palace in Cairo. When they opened it, they found it contained a black stoned slab covered with writing in three different scripts. A note from a French army officer was inside the package saying that the stone had been unearthed in an old fort near the town of Rosetta, thirty-five miles north of Alexandria, Egypt. French soldiers were tearing down a ruined wall in the fort when they came upon the slab.

–The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin

Read the passage and the preface from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone. State the organizational structure of the passage. Then, state the main idea of the text feature. Last, write two sentences about what the text organization and preface help the reader understand about the Rosetta Stone.

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The red badge of courage documents henry's growth and maturity as a soldier through the changes in his personality and behavior. during this transition, henry's emotions run the gamut from glory to fear to depression to anger to exhilaration to courage to honor. his personality and behavior move from innocence to experience, in essence from doubt to duty. henry's maturing process occurs very quickly. in the span of just a few days, henry experiences a lifetime's worth of growth — from his enlisting for self-centered reasons of glory, to the exhilaration of his first battle, to his running from his second battle for fear of being killed, and, ultimately, to his facing the enemy and leading a charge as he becomes one of the bravest soldiers in his regiment. several examples from the novel illuminate the changes which take place in henry's character and in their relationship to the themes of doubt and duty.

It affords him the opporunity