Boys Of Blood And Bone Personal Conflict

An individual's perspective on death alters through personal conflict with death. In the novel ‘'Boys of Blood and Bone'' by David Metzenthen, the author incorporates dual narration to display contrast two protagonists Andy and Henry from W.W.1. and modern era, despite this both will experience personal conflict caused by death. Despite this, the composer displays personal conflict of the protagonist when expectations and reality of death are altered and a protagonist's death who experiences personal conflict due to unable to complete his duty for loved ones.

The change of views on death altered an individual through special personal conflict by expectations and reality of death. ''Henry tried to picture someone dead… Lowering them in… And

then they'd be gone… He'd never dealt with this word before… Trot was dead… He was gone." This quote depicts how the protagonist Henry depicts death as emotionless as his expectation, however when his best friend Trot dies and he experiences a personal conflict of believing the news and also depicts how death has struck him harder than he expected.

The author uses juxtaposition to exhibit contrast on how the protagonist had a calm and relaxed expectation of death, but when the death happened to someone close to him the protagonist creates a personal conflict of accepting this fact. The author also uses emotive language to evoke the reader's reaction and further draws a readers' deepest thoughts, especially for readers would have experienced before and after perspectives through the change and conflict death of loved ones can affect. The author uses hyperbole to emphasize the expectations Henry describe death as ‘'And then they'd be gone'' the author exaggerates that a dead person is ‘'gone'' to lay bare that they won't come back alive and not cause any emotional and mental harm to himself. The author utilizes the technique of contrast on how the protagonist has little to no care about if someone they didn't know died but when his close friend died he experiences conflict in believing this news. The technique of connotations is also seen in the quote, the technique is used to add more meaning to the word ‘'dead'' by using ‘'he was gone'' , so a more deep meaning of dead could be displayed to readers The author successfully present unique perspective on conflict by using emotive language,

juxtaposition, hyperbole, contrast and connotations aid in creating an atmosphere so reader can relate on how the protagonist Henry depicts death firstly as a topic that has no emotional and conflictual harm when seen as an expectation in contrast when Trot dies Henry experiences issues and conflicts with believing this is true and the reality of death floats to him. Metzenthen successfully creates readers to relate to what most people who hold expectations and realities to death and some will relate well as they have experienced conflict about that genre too.
An individual before death may experience personal conflict relating to uncomplete duties for family and friends.

''Although he didn't think he would be for very long…He began to think about the people that loved him and the people he loved…his parents, his sister, his grandparents, Cecelia and Frances-Jane…And there was the baby…he did know he had not done his duty." This quote presents how the other protagonist Andy is about to die because of war damages and he begins to think about his family, his two girlfriends and his unborn baby. The author uses the technique of slow pace to slow the event of the protagonist remembering what he has done in his life and what he has not completed for others. The author also uses mood to make readers think about what is happening and create the atmosphere and feeling for the readers to have when reading one's last thought before death. The tragedy is also incorporated in the quotes; this technique is to displays to readers that the protagonist will die and he cannot complete the duties he set or himself to complete for others despite this none can stop this tragedy from happening. The author uses the technique of voice to show that Andy does not express these insights to other people but will not share it, so the author uses voice to let the narrator do the explaining and describing of his thought he had before death and his uncompleted duty towards his loved ones. The author uses paradox to depict how that even if he hasn't completed

his duty for his close ones it is too late and death a natural part of life has taken over him. The composers use the techniques of a slow pace, tragedy, mood, connotation, and paradox to depict to readers how the protagonist experiences personal conflict about incomplete duties for loved one before death. The composers have described the atmospheres a person would have before death and the thoughts of the past and their loved ones, but however, on the other hand, the author doesn't have much for readers to relate to as most readers haven't died before.
Through close perception, a conclusion can be made that an individual's perspective on death can change through personal conflict death can alter. This is seen in the protagonist expectations and reality of death and the change he experiences through personal conflict caused with the ability of not believing the news. The author also creates personal conflict before the death of a protagonist from the incompletion of duties for loved ones. The author has successfully shown a unique perspective on conflict through his contextual information about expectations and reality of death but has failed in making relation to readers about one's personal conflict before death.