The answer to your questions is: 'the housemates sit / around a radiant fireplace'. It conveys the sense that people experiencing the storm may view it positively, since they are warm, near a fireplace.
1) I think it is A as it explains more about the story "to build a fire" the man really did have foolish decisions.
fall:
<u>plants</u>
- leaves fall off plants
- leaves change color
<u>animals
</u>- animals usually start hibernation
- they grow more fur to keep warm
<u>people
</u>- people wear sweaters
- we jump in piles of leaves
- we turn up the heat in our houses.
i hope this helped :)
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