Answer:
Power can corrupt when someone is looking for power and when they start liking it, so they will go out and try to think they are better than other people.
Explanation:
The balance of power between the characters changed because when the man was stuck in the well the children thought they had more power over the man in the beginning of the story, but at the end of the story, the man in the well gained more power over over the children when he was making them scared because he knew their names which frightened them.
William Cullen Bryant wants to show with this lovely poem ”Thanatopsis “ which means view on the death in Greek, that death is nothing to be feared. It is the natural thing that we all can die today or tomorrow and we could live with the assurance that we will meet the ones who went before us.
The three lines which best indicate this theme are:
<u><em>Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
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<u><em>Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
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<u><em>By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
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Metaphor; It compares two unlike things without like or as.
