In Only Daughter, what information mainly do these two paragraphs convey about the author?

“to build a fire” what does the man realize as he’s trying to light the matches? what difficulty occurs when the man finally lights all of his matches at once?

Which details from the myths support the conclusion that both cultures value children

0) "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, support structures, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important. which two central ideas in this story are most closely related?