When he says my father has gone to cut living trees and plant dead ones he means?

In what critical way is the protagonist dynamic in "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella"?

Read this excerpt from leah missbach day's foreword to wheels of change. bicycles have long played a role in my life. as a young woman, i rode one year-round before i had a car. but it was later in adulthood that the bicycle became more than a source of transportation for me. the bicycle actually began to truly shape the way i saw the world. what is the author's purpose for including this in the foreword?

The interaction between joanna and triburcio can best be described as a) heated b) apathetic c) despondent d) hopeful