The author titles this section “Everything Tends to Ruin.” What does the word tends mean in this context? Why does the author of this article choose this subtitle for this section? What is “ruined”? Who is doing the “ruining”?

“Tends“ in this context is equivalent to saying, everything happens to ruin, it doesn’t not mean “tend” as in tending to a garden.

Explanation:

I cant answer the last two as I have no context.

they used personification to make the truck seem mean and violent.

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