I think that kids should have a smartphone because that’s the world we live in now, but they should have a time limit on the phone. they shouldn’t spend the whole day on their phone, only a few hours
The answer is: smell
In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, when the age of Old Lady Chong, the piano teacher's mother, is being describe, the author uses two similes she smells "like a baby that done something in his pants” and has skin "like an old peach" appealing to the smell sense.
I believe it is dry because of the word desert and deserts are dry. Acrid also means in the dictionary bitter or harsh.