Lena is demonstrating "generativity".
<span>According to Erik Erikson, generativity refers to a worry for individuals other than self and family that for the most part creates amid middle age; particularly : a need to sustain and manage more youthful individuals and to the next generation.</span>
Yes, it is true.
It is called confiscating.
A simile is comparing two things using like or as. In your case, your comparing reading a book to a bowl of letter soup
It was important because with new farming technology a lot of farmers lost their jobs as other farmers become more efficient. With this new technology there did not need to be more farms in use. So that brought workforce from the country and into the city and that changed everything. It was a huge shift in society. From Agricultural to Industrial.