The answer is the character is scared and traumatised
In the paragraph, it had talked how the narrator had felt
when the earthquake had strike from the lines <span>My first inclination, as always, was to get away: "when
in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." Even they were
already in the safe placed, they were still afraid because of their experience.</span>
Simple, It is a figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning. So for an example in the hunger games series the mockingjay pin or the mockingjay itself would be symbolism in literature. <span />
um what aree you asking what is the name of the book you are working on
