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The poem “Dear Mom” by ____ is about a soldier who fought in the war writing to his parents about bringing home a “friend”, to which is his parents say no. It is later discovered that the soldier has commited suicide, presumably due to the unacceptance his parents showed. The poem uses pathos to evoke feelings of pity and sorrow from me, as well as rhyming and half rhyming to add emphasis and unpredictability. One key idea explored in the text is that the soldier’s “friend” is not human, but rather a representation of the trauma and suffering he has endured during the war - also known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. A quote from the poem that displays this idea using pathos is “my friend fought in a battle in which he lost an arm and a

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