Thanks for posting. I hadn't thought of it before.
The quick answer to this is that they gather leaves to make boats. As a science major, I'm a little doubtful this would work. Those ants covered acres and acres and their size though relatively small, were huge compared to other ants. The surface tension of water with a leaf might be enough to accommodate 20 ants, but that was a spit in the bucket.
Further, this implies that the ants were discriminating enough to stop eating the vegetation (which is the central conflict of the story) and decide that they had to forestall their appetite so they had leaves to cross. Even if they were capable of such higher lever mental abilities, there likely were not enough leaves around to accomplish the crossing.
All of that just so I could answer A
The reference to only fearing "fear itself" at the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird is an allusion to Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural speech.
Voice of thunder is a sound of destruction, loss in the region or some kind of mishap.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Voice of the thunder phrase in the poem a sound of some kind of destruction which might is going to come and going to harm the people and the live stock of the place.
Thunder is seen as a sign of some kind of destruction or loss which is said to be very loud and people fear some kind of mishap when there is thunder in the sky.
