The essay itself contains multiple literary strategies in order to give an effective representation of a different kind of summer, where the month of August was thought as the longest month. Some of these strategies include imagery, exaggeration, and hyperbole. In the use of imagery, Rick Bragg describes of back when he was simply a child looking at wonder at the “magnificent mud mole” (Bragg). More likely as a child, or even as a teenager, imagination plays a major role in seeing the best of things, even if it is just a large, dirty mud puddle. To lose that sense of imagination so early on can be devastating, as to bring in the questions of “what’s wrong with kids today?” (Bragg). Then there is the use of exaggeration, where someone could
