Challenges when recruiting in nonmilitary communities

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?

What element of medieval literature does the disappearance of the sword into the lake represent?

Which characteristic of james baldwin’s “notes of a native son” qualify as a work of literary nonfiction