Write a short poem about Christmas. please help I am struggling with this a little bit. Also will give the brainliest answer.

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

The physical injuries thaqt the narrator and other soldiers suffer in ernest hemingways in another country are reprsentative of