The author uses a specific word choice and he artfully crafted his piece that affects the excerpt's tone by describing his feeling and his imagination accurately. You would feel that its as if you are the sufferer instead. That he is being haunted by the crimes of the past and he could not share it with his daughter yet because she is still so young.
In the passage, the author includes many adjectives. The use of adjectives allows the reader to create a vivid picture in the audience’s mind. With the descriptive words, imagery is created. “He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty”, the author helps describe to the audience what he saw, and how these images changed his character and how he felt about war. When the author