Throughout the passage, Dalton Trumbo uses diction and the characters emotion to portray the relationship between father and son to be entering a new stage. Trumbo conveys a sense of tradition as he restates the adverbs “always” and very.” Between Joe and his father they “had always preferred [each other's] company to that of other men” however as Joe begins to mature he begins to separate from the closely tied bond and “for the first time in all of their trips together [joe] wanted to go finishing with someone other than his father.” Moreover,through the entirety of the passage, continuously using strong repetition is more prominent during the beginning and slowly decreases towards the end. Intentionally limiting his dition further into the
