This can help you.
<span>When the speaker sees bent birch trees, he likes to think that they are bent because boys have been “swinging” them. He knows that they are, in fact, bent by ice storms. Yet he prefers his vision of a boy climbing a tree carefully and then swinging at the tree’s crest to the ground. He used to do this himself and dreams of going back to those days. He likens birch swinging to getting “away from the earth awhile” and then coming back. hope this helps you
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Christopher Buckley pens a bittersweet memoir of his celebrated but formidable mom and dad. ... the okay to remove his mother from life support, his father having been too frail and ... I didn't want any anger left between us. ... Buckley wasn't speaking to his mother at the time, and when told about it, he was ...
