"We were conducted immediately to the merchant's yard, where we were all pent up together like so many sheep in a fold, without regard to sex or age..." How does the author's use of figurative language here contribute to the central ideas of the memoir?

i don't know exactly what it's asking, but either one of these pairs would

her; him

edith; sam

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the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

explanation:

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."