Answer: Knowledge is awareness that something is the case. Understanding is awareness of why or how it is the case. So no theyre not the same.
The tone that best describes the writing style used on this excerpt is enlightened, because he uses rhetorical figures to describe feeling. For example, saying that hunger is in their eyes is a metaphor that express feeling as nobody can feel hunger on their eyes but on their stomach.
D because it’s to long for me to read all of it