What comparison does the speaker make between himself and flies?

NOD
The speaker compares everything he is
expected to learn to flies that are [blank]
The flypaper
makes the flies[ blank]
and that is
how the speaker's responsibilites
sometimes make him feel

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Agood persuasive essay topic cannot be a. a fact b. debatable c. something somebody else has already written about

What difference do you notice between this passage and contemporary pose.