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What Could These Persons Have Done? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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What could these persons have done?

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Solution

Each person could have relinquished his log to keep the fire going and could have saved each other from dying in the cold. Symbolically if they had rid themselves of their sins they could have kept alive the fire of faith and saved themselves from damnation.

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