How do herr and caputo combine observations and literary devices to tell a story

Both Caputo and Herr were writers of the Vietnamese war. And the way they combined observations and literary devices is seen by the experiences they lived while on war. Many different experiences were building the structure for stories. The idea was to communicate the war experience and how soldiers lived

The first sene: alice was performing a magic trick with a wand and a small spell book that her grandfather had given her. while she was practicing she saw matt who was one of the other contestants, while she was practicing matt bumped in to her and made her say the spell wrong. all of a sudden a swoosh of sparkling purple wind picked them up and put them back on the floor. when they looked at each other alice saw herself and that’s when she realized that they had switched bodies.