Explanation:
His first statement in the poem does the contrasting, which says;
"Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night".
In effect he was saying just as an innocent child goes to bed, so the victims were alive just the day before horrific event of September 11.
Further into the night the innocent child experiences a change, which was expressed with the words;
"A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze". This saying indicates how the innocent people experienced a change that made them victims of a horrific event that claimed their lives.
Answer:
The narrator's habit of looking out the window suggests that they long for something different or missing in their life.
Explanation:
This main detail about the narrator and the supporting details in the passage shows that the family might be longing for the life they used to have before such as life at Terra before going to Mars. According to the narrator, his imaginations run wild while looking out of the window. Though little, compared to the others she might have imagined life in Terra.
The sentence in paragraph 7; "Sometimes I wish I got to grow up in Terra and get bigger" supports the idea that the family might have longed for something different or missing in their life.