Anaphora

Reading the part when Kiowa dies was depressing ( I could only read so much of the book at a time). I started thinking about all of the reasons why he died. The first reason I thought of was the war. He wouldn't have been there if he had not have been drafted. "You could blame the war. You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. you could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy" (page 177). The phrase, "You could blame", is repeated to show that in a war, there are many factors that contribute to one event. All in all, there seems to be no one and nothing to blame because of the countless factors. One person or thing cannot fully take the blame. The phrase becomes redundant and I finally thought that the reason will never be known why Kiowa died.