Building a fire is an act of technical skill and technology, and fire in literature has also often been used as a symbol of knowledge. The building of a fire thus symbolizes life in the story, but also life through human knowledge, skill, and technology.
Answer:
Bulfinch believed the Romans to be dull and uninventive.
Explanation:
<em>"neither poetical nor imaginative"</em>
The passage does not mention work ethic, or in fact, praise them at all. It portrays an image of an incredibly dull civilisation.
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The title of the story is Federigo's Falcon where Federigo is one of the main characters.
He is an owner of a farm in a country estate. He falls in love with a woman who was already married to a wealthy man and has a son. Although her husband died, she is not willing to take another man to be her husband.