What is the past principle of liberate ?

Which pair of words has similar denotation but different connotations?

Can someone paraphrase this for me? loaded like spoons into the belly of jesus where we lay for weeks for months in the sweat and stink of our own breathing jesus why do you not protect us chained to the heart of the angel where the prayers we never tell and hot and red as our bloody ankles jesus angel can these be men who vomit us out from ships called jesus angel grace of god onto a heathen country jesus angel ever again can this tongue speak can these bones walk grace of god can this sin live

1. the ranch hand whit reminisces about a ranch hand, bill tenner, who is no longer on the ranch. which theme does this best illustrate? a. the injustice of discrimination b. the value of hopes and dreams c. the destructiveness of human beings d. the loneliness of human beings 2. steinbeck illustrates symbolism when he describes a. the heron feeding on the snake in the pond. b. lennie talking to the gigantic rabbit. c. george telling lennie it isn't his fault. d. slim's invitation to go have a drink. 3. george's traveling companion, lennie, always asks to hear about the rabbits. which of the following best describes his reasoning? a. lennie knows it george to talk about the rabbits. b. the rabbits are bigger than mice making them able to withstand lennie's petting. c. lennie lived on a farm where he was responsible for raising rabbits. d. the rabbits are part of george and lennie's dream of one day having a farm of their own.