Billie called her son chris a teenage tolstoyan, why?

A Tolstoyan is someone who believes in simple life and does not believe in possession of wealth and ownership of a property. They oppose all religious teaching which does not comes from Jesus Christ.

Billie calls Chris as Teenage Tolstoyan since Chris had the same influence from young age and now in his teenage, he is an entrepreneur of his own making  his own money. Even before his teen, he would sell vegetable in a wagon from their garden on his own.

"the day we found the sharks' teeth" i would say highlight the element of the plot as it sets its boundaries and centers the adventures of them being on a boat and cleaning spit of sand.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

hope this !