Contents Of A Dead Man's Pocket Literary Devices

Literary Analysis Collection 1
Have you ever thought about what decisions that you’ve made through your life? Well, it is worth thinking about over time. In the short stories “The Pedestrian” and the “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, and the “Ambush” all deal with the consequences of their actions. But luckily, the protagonist of these stories see’s their mistakes.
The protagonist of these three short stories have their similarities, but also consist of few differences. The protagonist of the “Ambush” is a military soldier that writes about war and experienced killing a man. He also has a young daughter that asks him if he has ever killed a man before and he has a hard time answering his daughter’s difficult question. In this story it states,

The setting of the “Ambush’ was dark and intensely. In the story it says,” Shortly after midnight we moved into the ambush site outside My Khe. The whole platoon was there, spread out in the dense brush along the trail…” This quote shows and lets you imagine the setting of this story. The setting of “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” was dark and was tense, and noisy and cold. In the story it states,” He saw the yellow sheet, dimly now in the darkness outside…pushed by the breeze that pressed steadily against the building wall.” This quote gives great details describing the setting. The setting of “The Pedestrian” has quite a dark and quiet setting. In the story it says,” And on his way, he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers…undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs…” This quote gives you detailed descriptions of its setting. These settings are different because they each take place at different times and places, but they are similar because they all have dark and intense

The conflict of “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” was that the character went onto his apartments ledge to retrieve a yellow piece of paper and then he got stuck outside for a few moments. Its says in the story,” For a motionless instant he saw himself externally…balanced on this narrow ledge, nearly half his body projecting out above the street far below-and he began to tremble violently…” This quote shows how the conflict came about the character of this story. The conflict of “The Pedestrian” was that the protagonist was stopped by the police while walking at night by himself. In this story it says, “stand still. Stay where you are! Don’t move…Put up your hands!” This evidence shows the conflict beginning to occur. The conflicts of these stories have their similarities which is that the conflict of “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” and the “Ambush” both deal with death and fear. Their differences is that “The Pedestrian” is only story that has a conflict that has nothing to do with