What is lewis overall purpose in this speech?

The central idea of his speech is to say that success does not always take hard work, but also a little bit of luck. He talks about his experience about getting lucky to get ivited at that specific dinner. I think he choose this to say that what the real world is all about,  and that people honestly just get lucky. He shares his personal experience at the beginning of his speech.

1. the details that would clarify the authors purpose for writing would be after the "haley collected used soccer jersey and sent them to guatemalan children." part, he would say, "and you can also donate today to save ". so far in the text, you can see no such thing. if, near the end the author persuades you to donate to guatemalans, then you know that the author's reason to write is to persuade you.

2. what details would make the text more engaging is to see the guatemalan children's reaction to getting free jerseys.

3. the details that convey the author's attitude would be an opinion by the author, for example, if he said, "haley was a very nice girl " or, you can find the attitude by finding parts of haley's personality that he highlights. you can strengthen your tones by using more descriptive words, and simplify long sentences as much as you can.

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