The fifth natural paragraph of "The Reed in My Hometown" uses the rhetorical device of metaphor, and writes that the growth of reed shows that people are weak, just like a reed, but they are strong and glow with infinite tenacity from weakness. Even our own tenacity, which we may not realize, is accompanying us all the way forward, using things to compare people, using a reed as an example to compare people's tenacity, and also expressing the author's thoughts and feelings. The article is more compact around the reed.

Reed in Hometown is a book published by China Children's Press and Publication Corporation on July 1 2009 by Fan Fajia.