Reread lines 97–108. What metaphor does Soto use to explain how he feels as he begins the second half of his workday? What is the impact of his metaphor on the tone or feeling of the text?

"boredom was a terror almost as awful as the work itself"

- he has the choice to be bored at home or bored at work making money

-the impact: soto is feeling depressed because he no longer sees the hope in working

-he was hoping for money for new clothes

-the work was so hard and overcoming that he lost his drive for his desire

Explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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