PART A: Which of the following best describes a central theme of the text? A. Peace requires a soldier's sacrifice. B. Family is the only reason soldiers fight C. War is neither glorious nor pretty. D. Death is not frightening but welcoming the text is dreamers by Siegfried sassoon

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?