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Katrinarc Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Passage from Midnight's children
Hi, this a passage from midnight's children:
The new grass bided its time underground; the mountains were retreating to their hillstations for the warm season. (In the winter, when the valley shrank under the ice, the mountains closed in and snarled like angry jaws around the city on the lake.)
I don't quite understand the metaphor in the highlighted sentence. Can you help me? Thanks in advance!
The new grass bided its time underground; the mountains were retreating to their hillstations for the warm season. (In the winter, when the valley shrank under the ice, the mountains closed in and snarled like angry jaws around the city on the lake.)
I don't quite understand the metaphor in the highlighted sentence. Can you help me? Thanks in advance!
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Do you know what a hill station is, Katrina? From Wikipedia: A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia (particularly India), but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler .
- Do you know what a hill station is, Katrina?
- From Wikipedia: A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley.
- The term was used mostly in colonial Asia (particularly India), but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler .
- Does that help?
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Do you know what a hill station is, Katrina? From Wikipedia:
A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia (particularly India), but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler.
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A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia (particularly India), but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler.
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Thanks, Mister Micawber, I had searched for the meaning of hill station, but I wasn't able to understand what the author meant by saying that the mountains retreated to them.
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