They give the readers a sense of compassion. The readers know that they cannot ever really feel the same way that those soldiers did but the stories make them want to. These documents give proof to how real the war really was and by giving personal accounts of the war, the readers get to see a bit of what was happening on the inside. The readers get to see the true reactions to the decisions of the government.<span />
Answer:
Discussing the second stage of man's life, the speaker uses a simile when he compares a whining schoolboy reluctantly walking to class to a snail ("creeping like a snail. A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different things using the words "like" or "as."