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Repetition-The word "Should've"
Personification-"should've exercised...discretion"
feeling imagery-"he felt sick about it"
Symbolism-" a crime , Jimmy cross thought". Kiowas death is represented as a crime

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Simile-"Sometimes...the cold"

Imagery-"advancement...eyes open"

Symbolism-"the difference between...and the smell"

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Description-" a splendid...and decent."
Symbolism-"in the way... illustrated new testament."
Shows what he carried and why he carried it

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Flashback and repetition-"He remembered..he remembered"
Simile-"like Murder, the boy thought"
Personification-"the flashlight made it happen"

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Personification-"i looked for...land might offer"
Gave the land human trait like what it could offer to him

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Flashback-"He would've...this"
imagery  -"There were...Shine"
juxtaposition-"He pulled...Going, too"

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"A crime, Jimmy Cross thought. Looking out toward the river, he knew for a fact that he had made a mistake setting up here. The order had come from higher, true, but still he should've exercised some field discretion. He should've moved to higher ground for the night, should've radioed in false coordinates. There was nothing he could do now, but still it was a mistake and a hideous waste. He felt sick about it. Standing in the deep waters of the field, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross began composing a letter in his head to the kid's father, not mentioning the shit field, just saying what a fine soldier Kiowa had been, what a fine human being, and how he was the kind of son that any father could be proud of forever."(pg 104)

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"There were bubbles where Kiowa's head should've been.
The left hand was curled open; the fingernails were filthy; the wristwatch gave off a green phosphorescent shine as it slipped beneath the thick waters.
He would've talked about this, and how he grabbed Kiowa by the boot and tried to pull him out. He pulled hard but Kiowa was gone, and then suddenly he felt himself going, too."(pg 95)

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"I returned with my daughter to Vietnam, where we visited the site of Kiowa's death, and where I looked for signs of forgiveness or personal grace or whatever else the land might offer. The field was still there, though not as I remembered it."(pg 115)

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"Kiowa had been a splendid human being, the very best, intelligent and gentle and quiet-spoken. Very brave, too. And decent. The kid's father taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, where Kiowa had been raised to believe in the promise of salvation under Jesus Christ, and this conviction had always been present in the boy's smile, in his posture toward the world, in the way he never went anywhere without an illustrated New Testament that his father had mailed to him as a birthday present back in January."

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“ Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave. In certain situations you could do incredible things, you could advance toward enemy fire, but in other situations, which were not nearly so bad, you had trouble keeping your eyes open. Sometimes, like that night in the shit field, the difference between courage and cowardice was something small and stupid. The way the earth bubbled. And the smell.”(pg 94)

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"He remembered switching on his flashlight. A stupid thing to do, but he did it anyway, and he remembered Kiowa leaning in for a look at the picture—"Hey, she's cute," he'd said— and then the field exploded all around them. Like murder, the boy thought. The flashlight made it happen. Dumb and dangerous. And as a result his friend Kiowa was dead. That simple, he thought."(pg 109)

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How does O’Brien develop his social commentary on the Vietnam War through the character and death of Kiowa ?

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How does O’Brien develop his social commentary on the Vietnam War through the character and death of Kiowa ?