PLEASE HELP After reading the excerpt from The Waysiders, answer the question below.

Consider the literary techniques Seamus O'Kelly employs in this narrative. Write a critical judgment of the excerpt based on one or more devices or elements in the passage. Incorporate quotations and specific examples for the element you discuss. Use details to support your answer.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia