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Answer: No, it is not a run-on sentence</h3>
This is one full thought that doesn't run on for too long. The "overcome with joy" portion is the dependent clause that needs the other part "Mrs. Monroe told her husband the exciting news about her promotion" which is the independent clause. The independent clause could be its own sentence without the dependent clause, but not the other way around.
Yes, I agree you have to look at your own school.
First, ask yourself: is there bullying in your school? (I can give you an example of my school: there wasn't)
Then ask youself: how can you know that there is? what have you seen? have you seen people crying, being beaten, being forced to do something they didn't want to?
And finally, look into the reasons - i can tell you that my school was so small that we all knew each other's parents, so noone would bully someone while knowing their paretns so close.
This passage allows us to see into the inner struggle and loneliness of the character. This is revealed in the phrase "interior gloom" while he faces the "open lattice" but he was not looking at anything at all. He was engrossed in his own thoughts and feelings of a closure or an ending of life implied in the phrase "the fire had smouldered to ashes." The surroundings was so silent and cold as revealed in the words "damp, mild air," "cloudy evening" and "so still."
Answer: The focus on the role of gossip in the novel.
Im very sure its the nameless grace