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On Page 156: “All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was,and how hot.The author is comparing a lemon to the sun because they are the same color.

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“….stood in the great jungle that covered Venus....” (159). A jungle is shaded and Venus is shaded by the clouds.

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I think the sun is a flower that blooms for just  an hour.
The author is saying  that the children are describing how it looks like.

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“...and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the island. A thousand forest has been crushed. (155)

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“Thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain…” (155) Telling us that it rains a lot.

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¨The children lay ouut laughing on the jungle mattres.¨(157) ¨Means they are laying on the grass. On the ground outside.

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“The sun came out and showed its face to the stunned world" (155)The author is actually saying the sun came out and everybody was stunned.

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“The drum and gush of water". (155) The author is trying to get you to imagine what it looks like.

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“The children lay out,laughing,on the jungle mattress and heard it sigh and squeak under them,resilient and alive”.  (159) The author means the children were laying on the ground and it felt like if the jungle was alive.

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“...The sun came out for an hour and showed its face its face to the stunned world”   ( 155) The sun came up.

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“...gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with” (155) The author is saying that the kids are describing the sun.

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"The children pressed each other like so many roses so many weeds intermixed..." (156).  What the author is actually saying is that there are a tight group of good kids and bad kids all close together.

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¨But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof¨ (155) What the author is really saying is that she was remembering the sun.

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¨... when the sun came out and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall.¨ (155) What the author is actually showing is how important the sun is to them.

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‘’ The children pressed each other like so many rose so many weeds intermixed" (155) What the author is actually saying is that there are a tight grope of bad and good people all close together.

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“ I think the sun is a flower that blooms for just one hour." (156)  The author is saying the sun barely comes out and when it does it is out not for long.

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‘’She was very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.’’(156) The author is trying to say all the rain and lack of sun is making  her pale.

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“ The children lay out laughing on the jungle mattress and heard it sigh and squeak under them, resilient and alive.” (159)The author means the ground.

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“Gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with.” (155). The author is really saying what the children say the sun looks like.

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“It was a nest of octopuses clustering up great arms of flesh like weed, wavering, flowing in the brief spring" (159) The author is saying that the octopus tentacles looked like arms waving.

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“...and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the island. A thousand forest had been crushed…” (155).  The author is saying that it rained very hard.