- When Christopher Mandles was away for a month it deveatatded his father franz he couldn’t go a day withough thinking about Christopher. Then suddenly Christopher makes a phone call to franz after a whole month. When he call franz he uses a simile to describe his joy for Christopher’s voice . He describes ha voice as it being sunshine after a month of rain. In this sentence he he describes the feeling of hearing his voice as sunshine which the Symbol sunshine usually indicates good or positive thinks. This emphasizes his joy and feeling he gets when hearing Christopher’s voice. Franz finishes the sentence with “after a month of rain”. This tells us his grief of Christopher’s absence and how much he missed Christopher, it also strengthens his feeling of his sadness.