I wonder why the writer described Lake lachrymose as ~~~? The taxi had turned one last corner and arrived at the scraggly top of a tall, tall hill, and the children could see the town far, far below them, the cobblestone road curling around the buildings like a tiny gray snake, and the small square of Damocles Dock with specks of people bustling around it. And out beyond the dock was the inky blob of Lake Lachrymose, huge and dark "as if a monster were standing over the three orphans, casting a giant shadow below them." For a few moments the children stared into the lake as if hypnotized by this enormous stain on the landscape. Why did the writer describe Lake lachrymose as "as if a monster were standing over the three orphans, casting a giant shadow below them."? i don't understand..