Name Course Instructor Date Can we love our battering father? Authors use literary device to emphasize on different viewpoints as well as themes and characterization. The devices are important as they give a clearer picture of the author’s representations In ‘Can we love our battering father?’ Gordon relies on various literary devices to show utter despair and hopelessness. The mother and children live in fear of the father given his violence, but it is hard to leave the situation given the emotional turmoil that they go through, and accept the situation based on the illusion that things would get better. In particular, allusion and diction depict haunting despair that is all