In the poem “Saigon is Gone” The author Thanhha Lai describes how Saigon fell by using a nervous tone. In the poem “Saigon is Gone” the author states that the communists are attacking, with all the bombs they have left, “ the Communists are dropping all the bombs they have left”(pg 67). The words dropping all the bombs gives a nervous tone and the people on the boat must have been nervous because they might have been bombed. In this poem the author describes bombs exploding everywhere, “Above us bombs pierce the sky. Red and green flares explode like fireworks”(pg 66). The words “bombs pierce the sky. Red and green flares explode like fireworks” gives a nervous tone because if one of the flares get too close they might be exposed and one
