The following passage is taken from the chapter ‘Speaking Of Courage’ from Tim O’Brien’s novel ‘The Things They Carried’. The author uses this passage to describe Norman Bowker’s feelings and experiences when he returns back to his hometown after the war ends. In the first sentence, the author uses a simile when he says ‘as if in a stopmotion’. By doing so, it becomes easier for the readers to understand what the character was looking at outside the window as they are aware of what stopmotion is. The writer goes on to use personification when he anthropomorphizes the town by giving it humanly characteristics like talking, listening and hearing . In order to add to the effect, the author uses human-related diction by using words like ‘memory’,