Unlike aesop's fables, which are meant to teach moral lessons about human behavior, the purpose of expository writing is to a) create. eliminate b) confuse. c) inform. d) persuade.

C) to inform the audience

What u have here is a dangling do not have a subject that goes with ur verb. you do not have a " doer " for the actionhaving read the children a bedtime story, the house was shut down for the night.  so who read the children the story ? it wasn't the house. so we have to add a doer of the action to revise this sentence.having read the children a bedtime story, jill shut the house down for the night. < == this is the revised sentence.