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Items advertised for sale in the Want Ad Digest in the Capital District include cars, trucks, appliances, musical instruments and electronics. The Capital District refers to the area around Albany, the capital of New York State. This region is comprised of 11 counties and includes the cities of Schenectady and Saratoga Spring
They discuss what Hester was sentenced for.
I think it is personification, because personification means to make non living things sound real, and the lines 149-151 follow that. “The taut gut vibrating hummed and sang a swallow’s note.”
