POINT OF VIEW · The narrator speaks in the first person, noting his observations of the war and his brother's involvement
TONE · Matter-of-fact; conversational; sometimes childish
TENSE · Past
SETTING (TIME) · 1775–1779; epilogue, 1826
SETTING (PLACE)
· Redding, Connecticut and nearby areas
TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · Early 1970s, United States