By helping the reader understand how scary the storm is, because it gives details and reads, "The world was coming to an end."
Answer:
You read to find out the central idea the character or you learns
Explanation:
As you know theme is "broad idea or a message that is to be conveyed through a literary work." I think what would best work is you reading the book a couple of times and seeing what the central idea the character or you learned.
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Personification
this is achieved by giving an inanimate object the characters and behaviours of humans.
In this case, the wind is given the behavior of whispering.