Question

An old fashioned bank threw out of its crater an eruption of bank notes amounting to five hundred

dollars. (Turn into complex)
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Answer 1

Answer:

To emphasize the amount of money that Jimmy frees from a safe in Jefferson City, O. Henry writes that the old safe "became active and threw out of its crater an eruption of bank-notes amounting to five thousand dollars." In this metaphor, the author is comparing the high volume of cash leaving the safe to lava gushing from a volcano that had long sat dormant.

Ben Price remarks that Jimmy has the only clamps that could remove a safe's combination knob as easily as a radish is pulled from wet soil. The simile emphasizes how Jimmy's tools and expertise lead to his trademark smooth and effortless safecracking technique