How can you check your final draft for a run on sentences?

a) look for very long sentences that convey complex concepts

b) scan your essay to look for opportunities to use semicolons

c) read the essay aloud to make sure that the ideas flow together with proper transitions

d) check each sentence to see if it has two subjects and to verbs then double check those

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?