In his final lecture to his mother, julian says: “you needn’t act as if the world had come to an end…because it hasn’t. from now on you’ve got to live in a new world and face a few realities for a change.” this statement is ironic because it applies to julian more than to his mother. how does this quotation apply to julian at the end of the story?

Read the excerpt from part 2 of “to build a fire.” to build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. his pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. but the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word?