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Which words most the reader understand the meaning of usurpers

In marigolds, which character can be described as having a laugh so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with it?

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.