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This 4 page paper discusses the way in which Rylant uses the characters in her book "I Had Seen Castles" to demonstrate how difficult times can cause people to behave in uncharacteristic ways. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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war. This paper discusses the way in which Rylant uses her characters to demonstrate how difficult times can cause people to behave in uncharacteristic ways. Discussion The story is
told in first person from the point of view of Joe Dante, a 17-year old who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first thing we might consider is his last name,
because Joe is eventually going to fight in WWII-he is, in other words, going to take a trip through hell, just as the Italian poet Dante does in his classic
poem, the Inferno section of the Divine Comedy. In that poem, Dante travels with various companions through the nine circles of the Hell, seeing the damned and their sufferings. Likewise,
Joe Dante will go from Pittsburgh to the European theater of war and find himself walking, with his fellow soldiers, through scenes of unimaginable horror. Like his namesake, he goes
through Hell thinking of the woman he loves. Joe paints a picture of a comfortable life in Pittsburgh, despite the fact that the city was grimy from smoke from the
steel mills and railroads. He is a member of a family that is unusually close and so he can read his fathers expressions easily. He, and the reader, have a
terrible sense of foreboding when Joe says that his father came home early from the university: "It was his face ... On any other day I could have read my
fathers face. But not this day ... His was a look I had no experience of" (Rylant, 1993, p. 5). He follows his father into the parlor where his mother
is sewing, and she too is struck by the expression on her husbands face; the two wait in silence to see whats wrong (Rylant, 1993). Then Joes father says "We
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