The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum. His wife, before him, seemed almost to whirl away in smoke. The children, small seeds, might at any instant be sown to all the Martian climes. idk what this means help

it's using a metaphor and a similie: A metaphor is something being compared without using like or as, but a similie is used with a like or as

Explanation:

being surrounded by crimes, poverty, and failing schools as well as his own lack of confidence in his abilities.

can u refase that where it has the blank