Read this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain. Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time.

Why does the author use the simile "popping up like corn to sting the flesh" in this excerpt?

to show the violence of nature

to give a picture of the behavior of the grasshoppers

to suggest a laziness in the land

to convey how hot the weather was