What form of figurative language is this? "... by behaving like a babbling bumbling band of baboons”

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

What does tolstoy set up gerasim to be foil to praskoyva fedornovna

Key events - what happens? what do we learn about the character in this event? or how does the event change the character? what is the author’s message in each set of events you have identified? 1.bruno and his family move from berlin to auschwitz due to the move he learns of the camp which leads to another key event. 2.bruno meets shmuel when they meet, they become friends which in turn towards the end leads to their untimely demise.