HELP! I need an answer ASAP! What does XJ Kennedy mean when he writes “Maneuvering steep stairs / of bedsprings to our car,” in Dump? I want to know what makes it a metaphor and what it mean.

Explanation:

a set of  bunchy steps leading from one floor of a building to another, typically inside the building.

"he came up the stairs"

a single step in a set of stairs.

"the bottom stair"

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the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".