PLEASE HELP ME In paragraph 10, Annie asks herself '"Am I living?'" What answer does she arrive at, and how does she find it? What figurative language and imagery does she use to convey the central (or main) idea of the excerpt? (An American Childhood)

Paragraph 10:
The men had driven away and the schoolchildren had paraded out of sight. Now a self-conscious and stricken silence overtook the neighborhood, overtook our white corner house and myself inside. "Am I Living?" In the Kitchen I watched the unselfconscious trees through the screen door, until the trees' autumn branches like fins waved away the silence. I forgot myself, and sank into dim and watery oblivion.