<span>The farm buildings huddled like the clinging aphids on the mountain skirts, crouched low to the ground as though the wind might blow them into the sea. . .
</span>A scar of green grass cut across the flat. And behind the flat another mountain rose, desolate with dead rocks and starving little black bushes
Answer:
Now, people have to sneak across the border a lot more and are immigrating for a better life. But, 100 years ago, the regulations weren't as harsh and people were escaping their country for survival/
Explanation:
In the book Peter is about to be left alone in Vola's house. I think he will try and escape, because he really wants to find Pax with nothing to slow him down.
