Answer:
It means to disturb "the air." For example, the piercing cries is what the air is being disturbed by, so in general, it was silent when all of a sudden it has become disturbed or interrupted. I think this is a metaphor but I'm not sure.
*sorry if im wrong*
In Chapter 1, papa has been depicted as a patriarch. Being a patriarch, he has always decided everything in the family. He was 6 foot tall, lean, and hard.
In Chapter 5, papa was a completely changed man. He stepped off the bus at Manzanar looking gaunt and holding a cane.
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" is the title now given to a speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society.
The answer to this question is finished. The predicate his a verb and the only word that is a verb is finished /c