What does it mean to unpack your thinking?

True or false: a writer uses ellipses to indicate an omission or that something has been left out of a direct quote.

And that's poem by ruskin bond what does the use of the word heartbeat suggest about the narrator's attitude towards life

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used