How does Alexander Weinstein incorporate the theme of loneliness in the short story "Rocket Night"?

Lens quotation: "character is what you are in the dark." -dwight lyman moody

Correct the grammatical errors? "is it just me or are there more weird things happening in the news lately? "

Which poetic techniques are illustrated in the opening lines “i am fourteen/and my skin has betrayed me/the boy i cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret”? alliteration and metaphor allusion and alliteration apostrophe and simile personification and enjambment