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<span>D. Man vs Nature
The garden is a part of the nature. Man vs man and man vs woman are interpersonal conflicts while man vs himself is a personal conflict. The idea of nature was common in Hawthorne's works and you can also see that in his book the Scarlet letter where there is a famous forest.</span>
Figurative - the channels are not literal or physical.
The examples has to do with his people trying to raise their own point of view when a misundertanding raised to the point of altering their unity. Tutu was right to be fair to both sides in order to be impartial and to raise only onw point of view to remain united