The rhetorical device that the author use in the line so the readers feel the terror that he experiences is : C. anticlimax
when the character's pocket got emptied out, readers expect something more important will drop. But it's only a piece of bread
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<span>Both men use their past experiences to show readers that they persevered and became accomplished readers and writers.</span>
Because of how money was tight employees were being layed off and fired which lead people to start spending less and because of that businesses had to close so everyone would feel the affect of the grate depression.