The great, gleaming apparatus which fed him and would
have compelled him to be still even if he had been able to
move brought to mind, not beneficence, but torture; the
tubes entering his arm made me think of pictures I had
seen when a child, of Gulliver, tied down by the pygmies on
that island. My aunt wept and wept, there was a whistling
sound in my father's throat; nothing was said; he could not
speak.
Which sentence best analyzes the author's use of allusion in this passage?