English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 237

In paragraphs 1 and 2, the author does not indicate whom the pronoun "he" refers to: "He drew pictures of himself with angel wings. He left a set of his dog tags on a nightstand in my Manhattan apartment. He bought a tiny blue sweat suit for our baby to wear home from the hospital. Then he began to write what would become a 200-page journal for our son, in case he did not make it back from the desert in Iraq." Why do you think she waited until the third paragraph to provide a pronoun reference