Choose ONE of the quotes provided below. Copy it into your response box. Then, write a meaningful paragraph (minimum of 5 sentences) about: 1. how it relates to the novel AND

2. how you relate to that quote or what it means to you.

“There’s no such thing as coincidence…” (p. 74).

“… I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you concentrate always on the present, you will be a happy man.”(p. 87).

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)