Josef is traveling by train and when they were on the platform, "All of the station attendants flowed around them like water around a stone."

What does this mean?

Ruth pulled her coat on when her mom told her to wear it. Ruth had a little gap between her two front teeth that made her look like a chipmunk.

When Josef's armband fell off, he "could barely walk. His legs were like lead."

When there was chaos in the streets, Isabel noticed that there people were thick on the ground as sugarcane. This compares:

Waleed sat like a zombie and watched TV that was "dubbed" (voice over another language). This is similar to which sentence?

Mahmoud follows Islamic traditional prayer rituals. After his brother joins him, he heard a "roar like a hot wind rising outside." Then, "it was like someone was sitting on his chest" because he could not breathe. What happened?

Josef's father was a skeleton in a suit three sizes too big.

Syria, I hear your cry...I will not write poetry for anyone else.

Home is the mouth of a shark

no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear saying-leave

(choose all that apply)

Mahmoud's home became a giant dollhouse.