"Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of a man he is going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not." (Backman 109) "A time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he is going to be. Whether he is the kind who lets other people tread on him, or not." (Backman 112) "A time like that comes for every man when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be." (Backman 113) I found it strange that Backman would repeat this line 3 times in 4 pages but I had a blast from past. I was sitting in my 8th-grade classroom discussing The Raven with my classmates when we began talking about how Poe used repetition to drive his point further. So why is this line so important that Backman felt
