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[HenryQ]

How does the writer use language and structure to present the theme of death?

The writer uses language and structure to present the theme of death by having a gradual progression across the passage. We can see this from when the author says “ slowly the damp and rot would infest the pine boxes” then continues to say “slowly it would touch their flesh” and “ finally it would consume the last vestiges of their substances.” The use of a semantic field shows the progression of life year after year and as it all comes to a halt where the author describes it as a “ meaningless part of that stubborn earth.” This message the writer is trying to give us is the cycle of working people go through just to be buried in the soil. The theme of death is amongst the quotes as time passes by, it all comes down to nothing and perhaps this shows us the writer questions of what the point of life is. The repetition of the word slowly leads us to the layers and emphasizes gradual development of life and the word finally shows the end of life. Perhaps it is trying to tell us that death is a process of erasure, by which the meaning of life is finally revealed.

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