What message does the poem "Concord Hymn" convey? A) People fail to be grateful for things until they lose them.
B) Conflict often reveals a nation's weaknesses.
C) Time and nature reclaim all things.
D) One has the power to be the master of one's own fate.

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?