To be honest I think it is true but I haven't read this book since 7th grade and I'm 11 so I would check up on that
Based on the given excerpt above, I can say that the what the carp represents here are DEATH and INNOCENCE. Death here refers to how the twenty-pound carp was being treated and innocence refers to the teachers and boarding students who tasted the carp. This excerpt is actually from Yun Wang's "The Carp" and this lyric poem reflects his bad experiences from his father, such as imprisonment and torture.
I thing people should be careful and I think people should start driving at 18 years old.
You could always say 1,236 people. Or you could use its multiple, 2472, and divide it by two, so written it is; The population of foxville is about 2472/2 people.