What is the root of the word wilderness

What prediction did douglass’ owner master make about what would happen if he learned to read? did it come true? why or why not?

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

In concrete mixers what seems to be the speakers feeling about the concrete mixers