While a couple of these can be used as answers to your question the most prominent one out of the bunch would be the rivers symbolizing the deep history and culture of the African people.
Its obvious that Taylor values Relationships
Answer: People follow a crowd to feel included
Explanation:
People generally follow others to feel like they belong to a group or a part of society. If you were to follow your friends around, it is because you like hanging with them or because they give you a sense of belonging. So if this group of friends was a crowd would you still follow them, because they give you that sense or would you stop following them because there is more people?
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The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it.
I believe that it is a metaphor because metaphors compare things without using the words like or as.