Read the conclusion of the adventures of tom thumb.

and now let us see what has become of the wicked ogre, whom we left sleeping on the rock.

when he awoke he missed his seven-league boots, and set off for home very angry.

on his way he had to cross a bog; and, forgetting that he was no longer wearing his magic boots, he tried to cross it with one stride. but, instead, he put his foot down in the middle and began to sink. as fast as he tried to pull out one foot, the other sank deeper, until at last he was swallowed up in the black slime—and that was the end of him.

the first sentence of this conclusion is included to

satisfy readers.
tie up loose ends.
circle back to previous events in the story.
include details to readers imagine the setting

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant