Connexus 6th grade language arts test

George orwell intended for his novel to be a warning against totalitarianism. use examples from the novel to show things that are present in the novel that can be found in societies today.

Read the excerpt from "mending wall." we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. what does the line “and some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?

What key in the reading of ancient text modern readers better understand