Tuck man vs. society " if people know about the spring down in Tree Gap, they'd come running like pigs to slops. They'd trample each other, trying to get some of that water"
And that would have been a disaster so immense that the Earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle in a pin. Simile.
His eyes were closed now, but except for that, he looked more like a marionette, a marionette flung carelessly into a corner, arms and legs every which way tangled strings. Simile