7. We were in a restaurant with the governor when we visited the state capital.

the black night was split open like the coconut

it says that it was totally black in the mind of a person but suddenly his mind opened like a coconut with the sweetness of the coconut water and the white color inside it.

or

the black night was thrown like a coconut and it slit apart with its sweet water coming out .

the star of david was known as the jewish star : d

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.