BoBOREDOM TAKING CONTROL

Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the excerpt?

Describe the various instances that depict candace lapidus as an archetype for any academician from the lesson gogol's first day.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?