The phrases in this excerpt that help to reveal the meaning of the word "blight" are:
The meaning of the term Blight is <em>scourge, whiter, disaste</em>r.
The support of the meaning in the excerpt is "the last bitter hour": the final moments when someone is going to die.
“stern agony, and shroud, and pall": the end of a life using dramatical terms.
"breathless darkness": a kind of disaster that is coming, not to be avoided that paralyzed people.
<span>Kennedy is using a rhetorical question to ask for support in making life better for everyone.</span>
Answer:Throughout this first chapter Pfeffer is establishing normalcy. She's giving the reader a glimpse of Miranda's typical life as a baseline for the ways in which she'll be breaking down that construct in future chapters.
