The Participial phrase is destroyed by fire, and the word modified is house. This is an example of participial phrase servings as an adjective modifying the word house. This could also be reworded into. Destroyed by fire, the neighbors found their house.
Both of them talk to about their life to the boy. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones gives Roger shoes in the end.
C - The importance of an education
If Jack would have known math and the value of his find - he would not have been cheated out of $500 by the 'corrupt' gold exchange officer.