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Frighten and confused, John William De Forest, introduces his live as a Union Army soldier during the time era of the American Civil War. William De Forest book is divided into two parts, the first chapters are more focused on himself as a soldier and the life of the other soldiers and the other half of the book is focused more in the services of the Bureau. A Volunteer’s Adventure by John William De Forest is more of a war diary rather than a novel and the author really does make a tremendous job explaining and painting a realistic picture of how he was feeling during his time serving as a soldier. John William De Forest, was born on Seymour, Connecticut (now called Humphreys Ville) in 1826. Even though, his father was a wealthy merchant and …show more content…

However, this research contains a full and thorough explanation of three of these literary device, which in this case are reconstruction of events and scenes, the use of actual names and personal names and the use of figure speech and images used in his …show more content…

For example, in chapter 4 named “The First Time Under Fire”, The author start by introducing the names of the battalion in which they are fighting with. It consisted of five battalion, the seventy-fifth New York, Eighth New Hampshire, Twelfth and Thirteenth Connecticut and First Louisiana infantry. In addition, he also adds that there are commander and lieutenants such as Godfrey Weitzel, which in here he is also using the literary device of including the actual name of the person, but that device would be discuss later on in this research. As he continues through this chapter, John William De Forest, tries to make the scenes as real as possible for the readers, as he continues. As the chapter progresses, he makes the readers understand that there were some internal conflicts between the brigades, later on, the author says that, they were marching towards the enemy, “We made an easy march of twelve or fifteen miles without being disturbed by the enemy.” Here the author make the reader understand the difficult condition that the soldiers already are and this is before they even encounter the enemy. He also adds “The men, weak as yet from the summer’s heat and quite unaccustomed to field service, complained of the weight of their knapsacks and straggled woefully.” This line makes the reader paint a picture about the soldiers and its adventures, later he explains that he is scare

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