In the chapter “Butterflies,” Roger Dean Kiser uses a variety of imagery to blazon his harsh and innocent youth in the orphanage. As six or seven years old Kiser describes how a single event changes his perspective on all things beautiful and how it used to “mean something special” to him. As his younger self goes into detail about his surroundings, readers can visualize the environment he is in and the mood of it. As the story begins to open up, six years old Kiser explains his morning routine that consists of preparing his bed “like the little soldier” he has become as well as filling “into one of the two straight lines” and marching “to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys.” Readers can already notice how overbearing the boy’s
