in the story the game of twilight What does Desai mean when she says the children “burst like seeds” into the veranda? What does this description convey?
It means that the kids ran out of the house with great velocity. when a seed pod bursts, it is not a slow and lazy process. It is like a gunshot, and the seed is propels out of the pod.
Desai uses the simile of seeds bursting out from a pod for the children bursting out into the open from the forced confinement in the house to avoid the extreme summer heat.
