In this excerpt, Mr. Stonecrop is compared to a mountain. How does this description relate to Mr Stonecrop’s role in the main co
nflict of the story? Mr. Stonecrop, like a mountain, is a fair and wise man whom others look up to for leadership about Malaga Island.
Mr. Stonecrop, like a mountain, is intimidating and strongly holds his position against the people of Malaga Island.
Mr. Stonecrop, like a mountain, changes with the seasons, and he changes his mind about the people of Malaga Island.
Mr. Stonecrop, like a mountain, is an elderly man who lets others decide what is best in reference to Malaga Island.
The excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
[Mr. Stonecrop] draped his arm around Turner's shoulders and drew him in, into his strength and power and presence. Turner felt as if he were moving in close to a mountain. But when he looked up into Mr. Stonecrop's face, he shuddered. Mr. Stonecrop was laughing, and his mouth was pulled into a grin, but his eyes were as dead as marbles, almost as if there were nothing behind them. He was like someone out of a ghost story, and Turner tried to draw away.
<em>Mr. Stonecrop, like a mountain, is intimidating and strongly holds his position against the people of Malaga Island.
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The area between any two pitches is a interval. The whole steps and half steps are the two types of intervals. A whole step can be called a major 2nd, and half steps are called minor 2nds.
His mentioning that community and individualism are constantly at odds "supports Quindlen's key metaphor: we are a multicultural nation of diverse ethnicity, but we are unified as one people under one government."
