What is the natural disasters effect on humans and wildlife

How is mr. hollembeak demonstrating appropriate behavior for participating

Which line in this excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by t.s. eliot uses synecdoche? shall i say, i have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Based on the character description what xan the reader infer about ruth