What effect does the symbol have on the meaning of the passage from "here is new york"?

the commuter is the queerest bird of all. the suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at day’s end to go to sleep.

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the symbolism of the suburbs as a “roost” expresses the safety and comfort of the commuter’s home.

as birds are inherently pests, the writer uses symbolism to express his view that commuters offer nothing positive to new york.

the symbol of commuters as birds illustrates how they come and go without ever experiencing the city.

by describing the commuter as a bird, the writer emphasizes the freedom of commuters who can come and go from the city as they .

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive