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Read the excerpt from The People Could Fly So [the alligators] all be quiet. Until the fire flare real high and close. . . . The gators swink close down but it don't do them no good. They got to move. The hot fire is real up now. It blister they tails and they snouts. And the gators are runnin away. Based on the clues in the excerpt, the word swink most likely means
A “walk.”
B “leap.”
C “crouch.”
D “tumble.”

normally working animals are domesticated and ruled by a master, a domesticator (tamer), to perform basic and important functions on a farm, for example. the value used in this context is animal labor in exchange for food. it is not so much a contrast to the story told by napoleon and the pigs, since the animals of that particular farm also performed functions on the farm through domestication. the only thing is that in this case, who rules them is a pig, also an animal, but very respected, to whom the other animals lent him submission. that's about a strong relationship of dependency between animal and owner.

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cockroaches and rats most likely symbolize in the play is :