neâ€"and some groups of young men will always be exploited.
             This was not lost on author David Halberstam a generation or two ago,
             when he wrote The Best and the Brightest ( first published in 1973), about
             how the brilliant minds of the Kennedy administration managed to get the
             U.S. involved in the Vietnam war and so many young men sacrificed.
             However, Halberstam was writing a journalistic account. Stowe and
             Remarque wrote novels. But, if they wanted to change opinion and even
             behavior through those books, then they would have to use techniques to
             clarify their point, techniques that their audiences would understand.
             Stowe used a combination of straight narrative with an omniscient
             narrator, and commentary that seems to be offered in another voice. She
             also used poetry on occasion. And she used dialect extensively to lend
             verisimilitude to the work; in short, she made it seem as if a reporter
             Stowe also uses her characters for commentary, as in the following
             passage spoken by Mrs. Shelby after she hears of her husband selling
             This is God's curse on slavery!â€"a bitter, bitter, most accursed
             thing!â€"a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a
             fool to think I could mak
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