boyhood relationship
...to the boys’ dissimilar upbringing. They were together spending time in the woods, laid out track and field games. “Hour after hour our bodies fell like bundles into the softened sand”, the simile revealed the performance of the boys’ bodies. They did things with no reasons but pleased them to show the desire of creating a private world. When they discovered the dead mule, they rambled over many scary spaces everyday. The author said they tried to grasp forces, but the forces “eluded” them using personalization to emphasize the difficulty. Also , the image “We’d lie with our chins in our hands looking out ever the miles of pine woods, the sun hot against our backsides,” stated by Frank illustrated the peaceful life. Not as well as the boys in the first passage, the relationship between the boys in passage two was superficial. The narrator William and Cletus got on will together without any excuse. William just pleased with Cletus’ presence. He went to his new house after school and “watch the carpenters, hammering, pung, pung, pung, kapung, kapung, kapuning”, the narrator used figurative language to show the tedious of staying there. Cletus and him met, “climbed up ladder and walked along horizontal two-by sixes with our arms outstretched, teetering like circus acrobats, the narrator compared themselves as circus acrobats to describe their good times together using simile. Although they were to...