If a resource was cut off from humanity suddenly I believe that we would find our way around it. For example, when Dunkaroos left our supermarkets in the early 2000’s we found found out next fatty resource, down the hall at Starbucks. Cakepops came out in the mid 2000’s and allowed us to crave a new food source.
If you are referring to this excerpt,
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
Then the reason is that it uses this structure to have a casual situation bringing the mood of the story to be light.
All honesty I could be wrong but I’ll say number 4
What is the question? explain more please and i will be able to help.
The pace of the text quickens to move the story to its climax, the completion of the windmill.
The pace speeds up here. Starting "By the autumn" shows that the narrator has skipped the daily, weekly or even monthly events until autumn arrives. We know the goal of this skipping is to be able to get to the part about the windmill since it is the last detail mentioned. Also, it says that "the windmill compensate for everything" showing that it is important to the animals. There are no flashbacks or examples of foreshadowing in these passages.