There are a lot of ways that my essay is like a book the things they carried. First the use of tone is one lit devise that both O’brien and I used. I used deeper language and try to make things feel more important with the tone. O 'Brien the way uses tone in the things they carried is in the way he talks about war he uses emotional and epic tone as seen in the quote “ The town could not talk, and would not listen.” "How 'd you like to hear about the war?" he might have asked, but the place could only blink and shrug. Even when he shifts reality from under our feet, or uses phrases like a town "blinking and shrugging" coupled with casual language like "How 'd you like to hear about the war?" we never doubt that he knows what he 's doing.
One example of this is shown in this quotes from my writing. “Edina is just a place somewhere in the world. Maybe it’s a lot like your world, maybe it’s nothing like it. If you look closer, you might see someone like you. Someone trying to find their way, someone trying to find their place or someone trying to find their self. Sometimes it 's easy to feel like you 're the only one in the world who is struggling. That feeling is a lie and if you just hold
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Secondly two more lit device he uses are Symbolism and Imagery. “There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look. And now, twenty years later, I 'm left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief.” The man represents the Vietnamese dead. There were tons of dead people, and most went unidentified, burned by napalm or buried. O 'Brien uses the men on the trail,to give the Vietnamese people some dignity and identity. An example of imagery is “He was the true audience. He was a witness, like God, or like the gods, who look on in absolute silence as we live our lives, as we make our choices or fail to make them.” it 's a symbol of his mental state. He can 't get the idea of slaughter out of his head and it 's all he can