Read the passage from Pushing the Bear. Of all the trees who spoke it was the pine who said we would go, covering its needles with its hands. The ground seemed to rumble loose our hold. "A whole nation would move," my husband said, sweating though it was no longer hot. Which statement best describes how the writer uses personification in this passage? The writer uses the husband sweating to show how stressful the situation really is. The writer uses the husband’s statement about a whole nation to describe the march. The writer uses the reactions of the pine and the ground to evoke shame and loss. The writer uses the fact that it is no longer hot to show when the march happened.