Three Soldiers: Codes and Conventions

John Dos Passos uses many different literary devices throughout his novel “Three Soldiers.” One of those techniques is point of view. This code is present throughout the entire novel. Point of view is the position of narrator while telling the novel. In “Three Soldiers,” the narrator is a third person narrator with a limited view of events. This means that the story is told from the third person, but it is focused on a specific character and does not know what the other characters are thinking. “Ah told ye about Anderson...Ah know you ain't tole anybody, Andy.” Chrisfield dropped Andrews's…