English, 18.04.2020 08:51, JazmineDavis5930

Which excerpt from The Great Fire reflects the theme that rebuilding is possible after a disaster if people join together?
An exhausted Chamberlin came to the Randolph Street Bridge and discovered "a torrent of humanity pouring over the
bridge."
A few were rushing to get out a special edition about the fire, while the rest were on the roof hosing it down with water.
"He had taken a dray, but was unable to load all of his goods into the vehicle, so he employed half a dozen boys, gave each
of them a coffin, took a large one himself, and headed the weird procession..."
"It [was] common to see ten or a dozen or fifty houses rising at once; but when one looks upon, not a dozen or fifty, but upon
ten thousand houses rising and ten times that number of busy workmen coming and going ..."

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