Essay Questions 1. The author is very successful in describing the changes of Maheegun in the following paragraph. Please pick them out and explain why the describing is successful. And you should point out the figurative( 比喻 ) in it. That summer Maheegun and I became hunting partners. We hunted the grasshoppers that leaped about like little rockets. And in the fall, after the first snow our games took us to the nearest meadows in search of field mice. By then, Maheegun was half grown. Gone was the puppy-wool coat. In its place was a handsome black mantle.