Write a paragraph addressing what you think might be the theme of this poem. Ultimately, there is no absolutely right answer, however there are some that might be a bit better than others. You can prove that you’ve chosen wisely by giving support for your claim by citing specific lines from the poem and discussing how those lines demonstrate your theme interpretation in some way. Submit the paragraph to your instructor.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)