Please read “The Bike” By Gary Soto before answering. It is for free online. It only takes about 15 minutes. In “The Bike”, analyze how the author’s use how of figurative language creates imagery to impact the development of the story. Be sure to use textual evidence to support your answer. (It doesn’t have to be long I just need evidence with the paragraph explaining the use of figurative and imagery to develop the story.)

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.