In Endless Summer, Rick Bragg uses hyperbole in a plethora of ways to help achieve his purpose of how summer continues to get shorter and shorter. His first example is “I caught a million fish, and survived a million red wasps,...(Bragg)” . He uses this to display how he used to be able to fish and be outside for days on days. Now that he has become an adult, he has become bewildered on how short summer is becoming. It is not giving kids time to enjoy nature and to explore. Another example he uses is “ It was not only summer, In a time before jobs locked us in chains and girls robbed us of our sense, but it was August, the most endless month of those forever summers, and August just never ran out (Bragg).” Becoming an adult, you must get a