he put that "lethargy" aside and in its place was "wilderness, the focused meanness of a flood or an avalanche of snow which only observers, flying in a rescue helicopter, believed to be an indifferent natural phenomenon, but which the victims, in their last gulp of breath, knew was both directed and personal." Morrison makes something so simple into six lines of figurative language full of literary elements in order for the reader to appreciate her writing even more. Hagar's passionate
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