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What's it refering to? Who's point of view here?
This is a short story, about a fly. I can't be sure the following sentence in the paragraph below. Who's point of view is it using here? What's crashing down? The reader's hand crashing down to kill the fly? or the fly crashing itself against the red clay? Please help.
The Freedom of the Fly (2nd paragraph)
Strike at him with your hand; and to him, the aspect of the matter is, what to you it would be, if an acre of red clay, ten feet thick, tore itself up from the ground and came crashing down with an aim. He steps out of the way of your hand, and alights on the back of it. You cannot terrify him, nor govern him, nor persuade him, nor convince him.
Thank you!
The Freedom of the Fly (2nd paragraph)
Strike at him with your hand; and to him, the aspect of the matter is, what to you it would be, if an acre of red clay, ten feet thick, tore itself up from the ground and came crashing down with an aim. He steps out of the way of your hand, and alights on the back of it. You cannot terrify him, nor govern him, nor persuade him, nor convince him.
Thank you!
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It's comparing what it feels like to a fly to be swatted with what it would feel like if someone swatted YOU. To a fly, being swatted with a hand is like if a huge piece of the ground came out of the sky and landed on you.
- It's comparing what it feels like to a fly to be swatted with what it would feel like if someone swatted YOU.
- To a fly, being swatted with a hand is like if a huge piece of the ground came out of the sky and landed on you.
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It's comparing what it feels like to a fly to be swatted with what it would feel like if someone swatted YOU.
To a fly, being swatted with a hand is like if a huge piece of the ground came out of the sky and landed on you.
To a fly, being swatted with a hand is like if a huge piece of the ground came out of the sky and landed on you.
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