Dennis. Skud. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2003. Print.
A poetic device that I found in this book is Point of View. The point of view is first person, but the Author switches the first person perspective to different characters throughout the story (Brad, Andy, Tommy). "She doesn't look up. She's crying, her face down. I try to kiss her but she turns her head. I see the marks I put on her arms, her neck. Bruises."(147) This is important because it represents the climax of the Tommy's relationship struggles with his ex-girlfriend Sheila. He loves her very much; but after his best friend Brad told him he and Sheila slept together, this pushes Tommy over the edge. He goes to her house and eventually sexually abuses her, "Was I as good?" This is where Tommy has hit rock bottom; as he walks back home, only to be charged and imprisoned shortly thereafter. The author uses his point of view so you can FEEL what he feels as he rapes Sheila, it's almost like you're in the scene as well. The author also uses Brad's point of view so that we can see his motive for lying to Tommy, it was based on jealousy, "I look at my most recent handiwork, the charred smell wafting through my nostrils. And I look at him, the big man of the school, so straight and perfect, everything was so right for him, everything wrong for me."(134)
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