Edward R. Murrow goes into detail with not just what he sees outside the plane but also what the people inside the plane are doing. Once they had dropped the bombs Murrow are flying over the Atlantic, he captures the words of the people inside the plane as well. The one thing that helped me connect with the raids as they flew over the Atlantic would be how he described the weight of the plane. at first it started out heavy and hard to maneuver, but as they dropped the bombs the and crossed the Atlantic the plane was less heavy. Murrow put the listener and reader right up in the sky with them.
What language or descriptions transport readers to the scene?
Murrow used very descriptive words when he talked about the raids. For example, "But suddenly those dirty gray clouds turned white and we were over the outer searchlight defenses. The clouds below us were white, and we were black."
He uses emotional words throughout the paper to capture the intensity of what was really going on.
Murrow used very visual similes and metaphors. "The small incendiaries were going down like a fistful of white rice thrown on a piece of black velvet."
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