The symbols that I'm going to explain are blossoms and counting. I picked these two symbols because blossoms represent youth and joby was “foolish” to joined the army at a young age. Also counting because of how many people died in the war. The resources I used for this 4 paragraph literary analysis was The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, https://www.civilwar.org/learn/civil-war/battles/shiloh, and https://www.nps.gov/abpp/battles/tn003.htm. In The Drummer Boy of Shiloh Joby the teenager that joined the army Is young and the general even though he was foolish of him to join the arm at a really young age. In lines 73 in The Drummer Boy of Shiloh the author states that joby was foolish to join the army instead of enjoying his childhood. And a blossom is a flower or a mass flowers on a tree bush, and this represents Joby because a blossom when it first blooms it won't need polen anymore to depend on. But before that happens it need sunlight water polen and soil it needs all these things to survive and joby needs his parents to survive to because he is not depend yet. These are the reasons how a blossom is a symbol of Jobys imicherness. The next symbol is counting, is the symbol for all the people who were …show more content…
Joby was counting all the people getting nervous to fight the war. In page 167-168 lines 10-20 the author stated “‘...thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three..’ unable to see, he stopped counting.” Joby was counting all the soldiers but he stopped when he couldn't see no more. Joby was curious to know how many soldiers were going to be fighting in the war so he started counting he knew it was going to be more than thirty-three but he stopped because he keeped seeing familiar shadows. Meaning that he was counting the same people over and over so he just stopped when he couldn't see no more other than