In "perseverance," which theme is reflected in the lines, "life's field will yield as we make it / a harvest of thorns or of flowers"? a. accept what you are given, because you cannot change it. b. working together people to achieve their goals in life. c. life is a field in which flowers and thorns will grow. d. your life is the result of the work you put into it.

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?