<span>The only place for the topic sentence is in the beginning as its purpose is to attract readers so that they would like to read a work till the end. So, to answer your question, the topic sentence should never be in the last lines, where the conclusion <span>of the whole work is written.</span></span>
I went on the Maid of the Mist boat in Niagara Falls
The correct answer is A. The boy's epiphany in "Araby" reveals the futility of human pursuits.
At the end of the story, the boy has several disappointments. His uncle is late, the bazaar is nearly closed by the time he gets there, and the only objects he finds are boring. All of his expectations have failed to live up to reality. The boy realizes that his relationship with Mangan's sister will end up the same -- better in his imagination than in reality.
In this way, the story says that life itself is disappointing and fails to live up to our imaginations. Answer A, that human pursuits are futile (or pointless), best encompasses the boy's epiphany.
A subordinate and an independent clause in one sentence is a complex sentence
