Answer: I think that the moral of the story is that we can find happiness <u>even</u> in the darkest of times. This is because there was still hope even in all of that Hate, Envy, Suffering, Sickness etc.
I believe it is 1, Compound Sentence. You can tell because if you take the ",or" out, it is still two complete sentences!
I think that is personification as you are giving a non living thing a living trait, if I'm wrong correct me.