<span>i would think Might makes right. these were not highly educated people. I doubt they would understand the other alternatives you offered. But if you could put the ideas into simple words they might. But then would it be your understanding or the characters?
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Personification is going to be your answer. Don't read the rest because I am only doing this to reach the max character needed.
In the short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka he lines reveals that:
Gregor does not want to leave.
The speaker is narrating in the third person concentrating mainly on the feelings, thoughts, and actions of Gregor Samsa in an unchanging and flat tone.
Adjective ? Since it’s describing a noun!
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