Answer:
I believe this means your only goal should not be just to make it through life successfully . Your goal should to find happiness. Your goal should not be painful and drawn out. It should be enjoyable and fun.
Explanation:
sorry if im wrong
Later in the story, the narrator races ahead and leaves Doodle to struggle behind during a terrible storm.
Not quite, in that case lecture is a noun.
If the sentence read: The students were being lectured
then that would be a verb
Hasty?
it means acting with excessive speed or urgency