So you may be wondering why my blog is titled this...well there isn't one specific reason why. First, I think it's a great quote from the movie Forrest Gump. Also, I like the message it teaches. Life is unexpected, and no one knows what lies before them. We have to take the chance and go see for ourselves if we ever want to accomplish something. This is also a lot like reading. We start out reading a book not knowing where it will take us. The ending is unknown until we reach it; sometimes it ends good and sometimes it ends bad. However, we will never know how it turns out in the end if we do not keep going.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Personification



"The rain fell in a cold, sad drizzle" (page 169). O' Brien uses personification by giving emotion to the rain. He does this to emphasize the sad tone of the day. Kiowa died the night before, and now the soldiers were searching for his body. Many of them felt responsible for his death, so they each took the blame upon themselves. They were all sad because they had lost a good soldier and a friend. Kiowa was friends with many of them, and they all felt responsible for either causing his death or not being able to save him. There was a sad tone around the camp that day, so O' Brien portrayed this through personifying the rain.

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