“They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes”. This illustrates that the children went crazy. They tried to check out the rain through the window. The children were happy that it was raining so they were crumbled up in the window. During they were
reading the poem they weren’t paying attention, because the rain was the attention. They were cruel and ran up to the window.
The author illustrates the theme in the story using figurative language. It is figurative language because in the sentence “now the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed in the great thick window”. The children can but wouldn’t be crushed in the window. Another figurative language is “The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun”. And “ it had been raining for seven years” it is also a figurative language because it has never in world record rained for seven years and I don't think it ever will.
The author illustrates that children can be cruel. It was raining and they were attracted by the rain. They were all trying to check it out. Using figurative language was a way the author was able to compare the actions of the children. The children stood up and did what they wanted which it was to look out the window, as in if they were all squished into the window. If you were to hardly get rain in where you live, and when you get rain what will you do? Be cruel too Like the children