What is Beah using this literary device to show?

A. That he will be rescued by a group of American soldiers who teach him how to survive

B. That he will learn how to survive but not in a way that he wants

C. That in his past, Ishmael learned how to survive in the chaos

D. How beautiful it was to survive by painting a lovely word picture

“Things changed in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implemented survival tactics, which was what it came down to” (29).