A! DDT is sprayed all over the county
        
                    
             
        
        
        
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Distraction as a way of survival
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The narrator speaks about how difficult is to keep on living watching all the survivors around her. Because she's seen death, but what strikes her completely is the living, so she says her "one saving grace is distraction", so she focuses on colors, and other details so as not to think about the destruction that suffocates her. 
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer:
the events that caused curle to discover two elements
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Answer: The purpose is to create a layer of butter between each layer of dough. It's important to refrigerate dough between each series of turns to prevent the butter from melting into the dough.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
This type of figurative language is a simile. This person is is being compared to a hornet, which aren't "mean" insects.