Reread the following quotation from paragraph 9: we were conducted immediately to the merchant yard where we were all pent up to
gether like so many sheep in a fold without regard to sex or age. How does the author use of figurative language here contributed to the central idea of the text.
The author compares their cramped situation to that of sheeps in a fold; how so many of them were stuffed together without a second thought, regardless of age and sexual identity.
