What type of analogy is precipitation to wet

What does the authors second and third use of the key term illusion suggest about foreign-policy

Answer 3 and 5 for brainliest. i don’t have a link for #3 sadly.

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?