22. Ryo had not seen her husband for 6 years since he was a prisoner of war in Siberia. Ryo sold tea to support her family and to survive. She was in Tokyo to be with a man, Tsuruishi, but he was killed in an accident. Ryo felt it was the right choice.
23. (This question has the same question with the end part of the previous number.) Ryo sold tea to support her family and to survive. She was in Tokyo to be with a man, Tsuruishi, but he was killed in an accident. Ryo felt it was the right choice.
24. The tailor's wife is the villain because she attempts to make them look bad and blames them for something they didn't do.
25. The professor got revenge by poisoning the food around the area. This affected not only the officers who unfairly prosecuted him. but innocent children. The real saboteurs were the police. If the police had not falsely accused Mr. Chiu, they would not have spread hepatitis to their city, disrupting the public. A few things he could have done was report the officers and start a protest.
Answer:
The example he gives is that if humans disappeared from the earth, nature would find a way to re-establish itself and little by little it would destroy things that are important to humans.
Explanation:
According to Weisman, a large part of our physical infrastructure would begin to collapse almost immediately. Without street maintenance teams, our great boulevards and highways would begin to crack and to become dull in a matter of months. In the following decades, many homes and commercial buildings would collapse, but some common items would withstand degradation for an unusually long time. Stainless steel pans, for example, could last for millennia, especially if they were buried in the prehistoric sites weeded in which our kitchens would become. And certain common plastics would remain intact for hundreds of thousands of years, not decomposing until microbes evolved to acquire the ability to consume them.
The author seems almost defeated ("I decided I couldn't run..") but also has a more ethical tone, saying his freedom wasn't worth anything if the city was still under DHS and his friends were still locked up and that his freedom wasn't as important as a free country.
