Pgs: 155-165

This chapter continues to talk about the mud and the death of Kiowa. All of which could be completely made up and therefore, I believe, somewhat pointless to read about. However I found an example of an [ANTHROPOMORPHISM]. It occurs when O'Brien is talking about the sludge. He says, “. . .how the craters then collapsed on themselves and filled up with mud and water, sucking things down, swallowing things. . .” (162) The use of the anthropomorphism here really helps demonstrate the true power of the sludge. Instead of just saying, it sucked things in, O'Brien gives the sludge a human characteristic, the ability to swallow, making it seem almost that it had a mind of its own and therefore illustrating his point much more thoroughly.