Page 38, oh how I love you! This page is FILLED with literary terms and devices along with many concepts and ideas fundamental to the book as a whole. However, one literary device essential to the concepts of the page would be the numerous rhetorical questions asked by the writer. I have always been lead to believe that rhetorical questions are posed by the writer to challenge the reader to stop and think about where they stand on the matter at stake. But, after reading over the passage once again, I think these questions offer insightful knowledge into the life of the character who “asked” them. By adding these questions to his diction, Tim O’Brien offers the readers the knowledge necessary to fully understand the main character’s way of thinking along with insight into the way in which his brain processes the current status of the nation.
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