How is the nonfictional text similar to the fictional text in The People Could Fly? Both use slave narratives to tell about the Underground Railroad.
Both suggest that gaining freedom felt like a fantasy to many people.
Both use historical details to describe the life of an actual person.
Both tell an inspirational story about an enslaved person becoming free.

Both tell an inspirational story about an enslaved person becoming free.

Explanation:

the turtle carries new life, oat seeds, over to the other side of the highway and plants them there.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.