Read this excerpt from the way to rainy mountain. great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time. why does the author use the simile "popping up like corn to sting the flesh" in this excerpt? to show the extent to which nature can harm people to depict the grasshoppers’ vastness and activity to convey the role that animals played on the kiowa journey to reveal in images what the passage of time meant to the kiowa