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In this excerpt , mr.stonecrop is compared to a mountain. how does this description relates to mr.stoncrops roll in the main conflict of the story

Read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath: snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking theirsnouts into it, straight down the country, across thecountry through fences, through dooryards, and in and outof gullies in straight lineswhich best describes the tone in this passage

Which one event in the story almost caused them to turn back and give up? losing their donkeysthe descent into the volcanorunning into their first dead endlack of water