Why does Nana forbid Mariam to go to school?

What do the words spoken by the mouse in paragraph 3 tell us about her character?

By comparing part 1 and 2 of polar opposites what does it mean by polar opposites

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.