A Windstorm in the Forest begins by depicting the wind as a maternal figure. As if tending to children, “the winds go to every tree, fingering every leaf and branch and furrowed bole … [seeking] and [finding] them all, caressing them tenderly, bending them in lusty exercise, stimulating their growth, plucking off a leaf or limb as required” (55). The trees resemble infants who are reliant on their mothers to make them strong, living symbiotically with the wind; the trees eventually reap cool shade, clean oxygen and protection for the soil below in return for the winds’ breezes.
Answer:
Modos is not a rhetorical device.
Explanation:
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In the explanation
Explanation:
If you are used to leaving the lights on, the fan on, or the water running then that could pose a big problem when you have to pay bills, because you are paying more than you normally would.
Answer:
This is a historical allusion to the horrible, discriminatory treatment that African Americans have experienced over the years.
Explanation:
A few examples you could use:
- Segregation
- Literacy tests + voting rights
- Jim Crow Laws
- Slavery
Jackie Robinson is saying that it is hard to have self respect when a country has done nothing to support you and has basically turned their back on your struggles and has enabled them.
