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प्रश्न
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs;
The first man held his back.
For on the faces around the fire,
He noticed one was black.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What do the logs denote?
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उत्तर
The logs symbolize each character and how they “couldn’t bring [themselves] to give the fire” their wood in order to save all of them.
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