Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
What metaphors are used in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray?
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Metaphor:
"The land itself has been the victim of social dilemmas—racial injustice, lack of education, and dire poverty. It was over-tilled, eroded; cut; littered/ polluted; treated as a commodity/ sometimes the only one, and not as a living thing."
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood