The language is related to the point of view by giving us insight of the boy's thoughts, and his feelings. We are given an intimate look throughout the story at what the boy is thinking and the overwhelming feelings he is having, in the following passage the reader is given a look into his thoughts about his father's actions: "Maybe he's done satisfied now, now that he has..." (394), the boy doesn't want to admit what his father does. The narrator has painted us a vivid picture of the denial the boy is suffering. He goes on to explain the boy's point of view when he sees the home of "Major De Spain," the reader is put in the boy's shoes and we can image a little boy staring wide-eyed at this huge home of the likes he has probably never seen. He feels a surge of peace and joy because after suffering in the dumpy houses his family has lived in all his life, any one that lives in such a heav

The point of view is stretched to put into words the boy's feelings. Knowing that a ten-year-old boy would not be able to express the sensations that he feels, the narrator cleverly stretches his view into an older version of the boy. One example is when the father is yelling at him to stick to his own blood. The boy, only knowing that if he didn't agree with his father he would get a whipping, but the narrator articulates the boys deeper feelings in this statement: "Later, twenty years later, he was to tell himself, "If I had said they wanted only truth, justice, he would have hit me again"" (493-494). Another example of the narrator expressing the boy's feelings is when he communicates to the reader the overwhelming peace and joy the boy feels when he sees the house of "Major De Spain". The boy is so young and inexperienced that he cannot articulate what he feels, he says: "Hit's big as a courthouse", but we are given an interpretation of what the overpowering tranquility felt like with the following passage: "with a surge of peace and joy whose reason he could not have thought into words, being too young for that: They are safe from him. People whose lives are a part of this peace and dignity are beyond his touch, he no more to them than a buzzing wasp: capable of stinging for a little moment but that's all; the spell of this peace and dignity rendering even the barns and stable and cribs which belong to it impervious to the puny flames he might contrive" (494-495). The narrator conveys the feelings that are shooting through

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