How Lomax and Fellow Prisoners are Treated Essay -- Prison Alan Lomax

How Lomax and Fellow Prisoners are Treated In this essay I will be looking at ways in which Lomax conveys how heand his fellow prisoners are treated here in this passage from thebook. To show evidence of this I will select quotes which show choicesof form, style, phrase and narrative viewpoint. Overall I aim tohighlight the ways in which the attitudes and values are conveyed tothe reader.Lomax Perfectly describes his transition from a P.O.W camp to OutramGail. What our captors were in concomitant doing was consigning us to alower coterie of hell. This extremely poignant statement shows use ofimagery in a way that stands out to the reader. He uses lower circleof hell, which is a simile to emphasize the absurdity of prisonersbeing sent to Gail.Lomax goes on to describe the horrible neglect that prisoners ofOutram road were experiencing. This was a place in which the existentwere turned into ghosts, starved, diseased creatures wasted down totheir skeletal outlines. Like the first q uote this is Lomax beingvery graphic, morbid about what he has witn...