Fletcher, at first makes the reader believe that he actually lives in the dwelling. Choosing such sentences as, "I climbed back to my pink apartment house, unpacked, and settled in," (Fletcher 81, 2000), this helps the reader to understand that this is no ordinary apartment. By using the word "climbed," to describe how he got to his apartment, tell's the reader something. Certain words that Fletcher uses lets the reader know that in most points of his writing he i

The descriptive examples that Fletcher uses really let's the audience picture it. Throughout the writing when the man speaks of events, he explains in great detail. "first I pictured him building his home. I saw him chipping patiently away at the roof of the cave, so that there would be headroom when he sat up in his cubical,"(Fletcher 82). Just by reading that sentence the reader can almost picture an Indian chipping away at the roof of his cubical. "I lay in our little cubical and called out to his wife through the partition, I confirmed that we lived-he and I -in a natural echo chamber,"(Fletcher 83). The way Fletcher describes the echo chamber, and how when you burp it echoes, almost makes the reader want to burp and make their own echo. Also the way the man described a war like situation using defense mechanisms that just come with living in a dwelling, lets the reader almost picture the war itself.

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Approximate Word count = 661
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)