What is the function of the noun clause in the sentence? The baby smiles at whomever he meets.

Which image from those paintings does not demonstrate the “suffering” auden describes in his poem?

Which war does jonas have a memory about? in the giver.

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?