How does the poem contribute to the story’s theme- do they share any similarities?

What is the first step in summarizing a plot? restating central ideas and key details eliminating minor or unimportant details connecting ideas with logical transitions identifying important words and phrase

This awakened in the washington a distrustful scrutiny into what

Weakened further by dysentery the farther could not get out of his bunk what further injury did some of the inmates do him