'Incident In A Rose Garden' By Donald Justice

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Gardener, Master, and Death "Death comes to everyone." In "Incident in a Rose Garden" by Donald Justice, the author develops this theme by the use of techniques such as personification and twist ending. To start, the author of "Incident in a Rose Garden" uses personification to further develop the theme. Justice writes "Sir, I encountered Death/Just now among our roses/Thin as a scythe he stood there" (Line1-3). The living thing can't see the death, but Gardener saw the death and he felt exactly that's death, also Death says "sir, I knew you father/ And we were friends at the end" (Line20-21). It means everyone die, so don't worry about it, and we can be a friend. This connects to a theme and personification. Furthermore, the author uses twist

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