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Answer the following briefly:

How can Mother Earth give, as well as take away from her children?

In giving the farmers a healthy potato crop, Mother Earth is shown as a bountiful, fertile figure. However, the blighted crop of 1845 is shown as a reminder of how Mother Earth can be very cruel as well.


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Explain the following lines.

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