A Windstorm in the Forest begins by depicting the wind as a maternal figure. As if tending to children, “the winds go to every tree, fingering every leaf and branch and furrowed bole … [seeking] and [finding] them all, caressing them tenderly, bending them in lusty exercise, stimulating their growth, plucking off a leaf or limb as required” (55). The trees resemble infants who are reliant on their mothers to make them strong, living symbiotically with the wind; the trees eventually reap cool shade, clean oxygen and protection for the soil below in return for the winds’ breezes.
Personally I think answer D would best summarize everything up. If it isn’t D, most definitely is A.
Answer:
C. The pull between what people want to do and what society will allow them to do.
(apex)
"This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose."
"The history of this country, in large measure, is the history of the expansion of that right to all of our people."
