Answer:
Muir describes his traitorous journey he had to embark through the swamp and narrate how the trip was dangerous and uneasy. He uses words such as difficult, struggling, fear, extensive, crooked, brood heaps, faint, hungry and tangled to depicts the severity of the event. Muir uses diction with a negative connotation to elicit the fear and concern that he felt when he became worried whether or not he'd be able to make it out of the swamp before night.
People who have everything may not know the feeling of having nothing. The child who has nothing is willing to share because the child does not want someone to feel the same way that he/she did. Meaning, the poor child does not want someone to feel like they have nothing
He started to apply to the University of Mississipp intending to insist on his civil rights to attend the state funded university. It still admitted only white students under the state's culture of racial segregation