and" Tom says, " if I don't, you keep an eye out for Tommy." ... In chapter 1, the reader is told the story of how the great migration came to be in an almost biblical "Genesis" tone, "The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the grey country." ... Old Tom is described having a face, "squared by a bristling pepper and salt beard, [which] was drawn down to the force-full chin the skin was brown [over his cheekbones] wrinkle in rays around his eye-corners from squinting eyes were brown, b...
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- Approx Pages: 21
- Grade Level: High School