“Base camp. Horizontal sleet.”
Suggest a very militaristic feel, emphasising how momentous something like this is to a child
“me and Ross Mudie are going up the Hilltown for the first time ever on our own”
Very childish language shows the importance of this trip to the child
“I plan to buy comics, sweeties, and magic tricks”
Very childish to emphasise childhood fears
“I cannot know the little good it will do me”
(TP) There is no punctuation from here on, until the end, which shows life speeding up until death.
“dead.”
Shows that our lives continually rush on until we get to death – the final full stop
