Her thoughts became abstract, of floating stars in the sky. At first she was apathetic about the sight, ambivalently, it was quite, something she normally hated, but the sky's beautiful aesthetic took over her body, she wanted to see this sight for the rest of her life, the sight was alleviate for her, allowing her daily struggles to become abstract.
Answer: A simile.
Explanation:
While being interviewed by a local news crew before the game against his old friends, now turned enemies, Arnold Spirit Jr. (known as Junior) feels uncomfortable with the questions. He´s suspicious of white people wanting to see Indians play against each other as if they were a degrading spectacle, like "watching dogfighting". This is a simile, a figure of speech that compares two different things by remarking their similarities.
Answer:
Because if they don't have the qualities the person thinks they need then they won't be able to handle the memories in a logical and mature way. It's like choosing your successor, you wouldn't want them to be unprepared or to give them what you have and watch them ruin everything you've built to get destroyed because you made a mistake on choosing the person. They need to have specific qualities to fulfill the checklist and see if they're capable of enduring the duties that come with everything. They need to follow the same footsteps you did and continue the tradition.
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