Since misery and depression are both sad/bad kinds of feelings, then we have to find a pair of words that have the same kind of feeling in order to complete this analogy. The correct answer should be melancholy and boredom.
What is your question, you have not put anything?
It's asking you how your reading selection has effected you. did they make you better writer? did you become more perceptive to detail? stuff like that. basically how reading effects you
'They are falling apart into great blocks of stone, and the forest is safer going.' AND 'No man of my tribe had seen it, not even my father, the priest. It was magic and I prayed.'
In the first quote we see that the narrator is cautious because he talks of the god-roads falling apart. He says that "the forest is safer going". These elements of this quote show us that he is taking care. The second quote shows how rare it is for the river to be seen in his tribe. He says that it "was magic" and that he prayed. One can assume that he is praying because he is in the presence of magic and he is being cautious about what may happen next.
