What simile does the narrator use describing his return to consciousness? what does the narrator suggest by using this simile and subsequent description?

The storyteller utilizes the analogy "Similarly as the day breaks to the forlorn and houseless poor person who wanders the boulevards all through the long destroy winter night-just so delinquently-just so tediously-just so brightly." The storyteller proposes that it appears to be so desolate and you feel so powerless when you come back to awareness when you discover that you have been covered alive.