The difference between a compound sentence and complex sentence is that a compound sentence has two independent clauses (clauses that could stand alone) and a complex sentence has one independent clause and one dependent clause.
Answer: I'm on my way toward making a better life for myself.
Explanation: The highway can be thought of as a route where there are endless possibilities and a long way to go and the old dirt track means a place where there are no good opportunities and everything's not as good as it could be.
Answer:
everybody will be happy, won't they?
This suggests that the writer belivies, or want to believe, that dragons could be real or were real.