Answer:
To use the genre of fiction to explore the harsh realities of war and communicate them to a wider audience.
Explanation:
Author Tim O'Brien's purpose in writing his book The Things They Carried is to use the genre of fiction to explore the harsh realities of war and communicate them to a wider audience.
Answer:
Personification
Explanation:
The dress is said to have whispered. Dresses can not actually whisper, so it is personnification. Personification is taking an inanimate thing and giving it a human characteristic.
This passage allows us to see into the inner struggle and loneliness of the character. This is revealed in the phrase "interior gloom" while he faces the "open lattice" but he was not looking at anything at all. He was engrossed in his own thoughts and feelings of a closure or an ending of life implied in the phrase "the fire had smouldered to ashes." The surroundings was so silent and cold as revealed in the words "damp, mild air," "cloudy evening" and "so still."
