The Grapes of Wrath<span> by John Steinbeck - An </span>Excerpt<span>. Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. ... The Mexicans were weak and fled. They could not resist, because they wanted nothing in the world as frantically as the Americans wanted land.</span>
Answer:
In most contexts, they are interchangeable. The only difference that most native speakers can agree upon is that someone is more formal than somebody (just as anyone is more formal than anybody, and everyone is more formal than everybody).
In the beginning the author says they are freezing with one blanket and the dad tells Byron and his brother to go ice off the windows so the author uses his word to describe how cold it is
A metaphor is an implied analogy
