Why is it /blu:/ and not /blju:/ ?

What does the term fiend not mean as it is used in the passage? a) beast b) brute c) fanatic d) savage

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

Was chris mccandless a hero why or why not