“He hit the first step, feeling it sag under him, but he kept going . . .Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of the them, thousands of them in the darkness . . “ (Lipsyte 19)
Alfred begins his quest to become a boxer when he is not in shape and gets tired easily. The author’s hyperbole indicates how desperate Alfred is after Major and the gang beat him up. Lipsyte uses dark, fearful images to demonstrate Alfred’s state of mind.
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