You are the first civilian, chosen through a lottery, to be able to travel to either the past or future in the newly developed Time Transit. In a minimum of a paragraph, show the reader a little bit of the location you chose to travel to and what kind of time is involved in your story, along with some of the major characters.

My cat and my dog like best friends

[v]ast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?

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?