Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it's covered up but must be open with all its pus-flowing ugliness to natural med
icine of air and light and injustice must likewise be exposed with all of the tension it exposing creates to the light of human conscience and the air of national options before it can be cured. Type of figurative language:
-The simile reflects the author's view of injustice
-the simile emphasizes the ugly, grotesque nature of injustice as well as how it inevitably must be dealt with. The passage takes on a gory tone but adopts a hopeful mood when proposing a solution to the problem.
-the simile allows the audience to view injustice as a problem that must be addressed before it festers and worsens beneath the cloak of normalcy.
