Growing up is difficult, but becoming an adult is an important part of life. This is a common theme in Rudyard Kipling’s writings. Which detail from "If" best supports this theme?

Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

The theme of the first seven years is consistent with characteristics of the time in which it was written. what is consistent about the era and the story’s plot?

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

Why does the host answer the guest with brief responses during the party?