Well, if the boy is anonymous and is not known throughout the book than
that allows the reader to experience a sense of making up the character
in the readers image. Usually this kinda puts you as the boy if that
makes sense. When the character is known than it gives the reader a
different experience with imaging this character from a 3rd person
perspective. The theme of it would basically just be that if or if you
don't mention the main character determines if you imagine the
characteristics of the character or not.
Answer:A simile is saying something is like something else. A metaphor is often poetically saying something is something else. An analogy is saying something is like something else to make some sort of an explanatory point. You can use metaphors and similes when creating an analogy.
