What is one way the author's word choice contributes to the tone of this passage?
return home, and i realized that his coming home with likely taking miracle. i should have been thrilled. but it wasn't robert who returned from vietnam. he had become someone else. ghosts had followed him home and turned him into something he wasn't before. there was no fire in his eye, no warmth in his touch. just an angry, hollow shell that look like someone i used to know.