"The moral barriers" as in ethics and morals, "that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career" as in morals that the character put into place about how dangerous being a criminal could be "were so tenuous as to be merely non-existent" didn't matter to the character.
<span>There are a few lines that illustrate the theme that man projects his own fears on nature while nature remains indifferent.
The first is the line: "At these times they were uncanny and sinister in their unblinking scrutiny, and the men hooted angrily at them, telling them to be gone." Here, all the birds are doing is staring at the men, yet the men feel they are "uncanny and sinister." The men are projecting their own fears on indifferent birds.
The final line also illustrates this theme: "After it had been discouraged from the pursuit the captain breathed easier on account of his hair, and others breathed easier because the bird struck their minds at this time as being somehow grewsome and ominous." Here, the narrator tells us that the birds strike the men as being "grewsome and ominous." They believe the birds are foreshadowing some sort of evil. Again, they are projecting their own fears onto birds that do not care about them one way or another.</span>
This question is missing the options. I've found the complete question online. It is as follows:
In 1970, Joel Silver's team played its first competitive game, which resulted in a 43 to 10 win. Select the answer that identifies the type of clause used in the sentence and the word being modified.
A. adverb clause; played
B. adverb clause; resulted
C. adjective clause; team
D. adjective clause; game
Answer:
The correct answer is D. adjective clause; game.
Explanation:
<u>A dependent adjective clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. It offers further description or information - similar to what an adjective does - about something that was mentioned in another sentence. Adjective clauses are often introduced by relative pronouns such as who, which, or that. In the sentence we are studying here, the adjective clause is "which resulted in a 43 to 10 win." The purpose of this clause is to offer readers more information concerning the noun "game".</u>