Secrets

                In the short story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by “Ray Bradbury”, Ray uses lots of poetic language. But he hides them in various parts of the story this makes you look deeper into the story.  These include a lot about peaches in different forms. One including this… 

“At midnight a peach stone left miraculously on a branch through winter, flicked by a bird, fell swift and unseen; it struck once, like panic, and jerked the boy upright”

                This quote from the story shows the life of this peach stone, kicked and torn and tattered. I think that this “peach stone” resembles how rough Joby’s life was.  Maybe not literally he might have thought of himself as the not important which might have hurt him.  This in a sense might have felt like he was getting kicked, torn, or tattered.  But towards the end of the passage Ray puts this in…

“…very close to the church named Shiloh, the peach blossom fell on the drum.”

                As I said before I think the peaches resemble Joby’s life. In this quote it sounds as if the peach blossoms on the drum represent Joby’s drum and that Joby finally realized that he is important in this war.