From what I can see about the opening of the book it looks like there talking about a feast all these people are sitting at around a table it reminds me of a poem called Friend by hone_tuwhare, because of the words she uses in the poem make me relate these to passages with friends and food
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Groveling. Groveling and fawning both mean to admire something.
In the context of this excerpt from “Civil Disobedience” by Henry Thoreau, the word posterity means future generations.He says that the American government is trying to survive in order to transmit itself to future generations, the ones which will follow.
A.) Both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents.