How can words or stories connect generations?

Which of the following components of information literacy relates the most to purpose of information? a. information creation as a process b. authority is constructed and contextual c. research as inquiry

How does storytelling imagine the future?

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?