What is the author’s purpose for including this sentence? to illustrate the cruelty and violence of a segregated south to emphasize his personal connection to segregation to describe the daily struggles of black children to explain the disparity of segregated parks.

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".

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