I think the author chose to start the book 19 years before the main events of the story so the reader could absorb things. The author technically wanted the reader(s) to understand something before reading the real story.
What angers the townspeople the most when the king is
selling the Wilks’ slaves is that:
He
separates parents and children in the sale.
Separating the parents and children in the sale is a
strategy that they thought of to sell the slaves faster. However, the girls
found breaking up the family insensitive – which made them upset. There were
also a lot of the townspeople who disapproved at separating the families, but
the men were still firm on doing it.
Answer:
The people of the valley believed that the Stone Face was auspicious for them. It made the land fertile with its gaze. The old prophecy about the Stone Face was that at some future day a child would be born there who will grow up to become great and noble.
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