Answer:
the author uses the word "drag" to show that he does not like having to get up so early for school
A scientist using ordinary decimal notation would have to write the diameter of, say, a helium atom as 0.000 000 000 062 m and the distance to the moon as 340 000 000 m.There would be way too much zeros to write
The green girdle represents his survival and failure. "A man may hide his misdeed, but never erase it." He says it's a code of honor