How are issues of gender important in the first part of Alvarez's novel(How the Garcia girls lost their accents)? Use examples from at least 3 chapters to support your answer.(the first 5 chapters need to be used)

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?

Which word from the stanza can you use as a clue to determine the meaning of the word vales ?

In the conclusion of the radio broadcast war of the worlds, orson welles: