Themes:
fear of being shamed
emotional loads
physical burden
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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mora
repetition of the word moral author gives empathise on morality and options
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moral indifference
repetition of moral stances
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red
color
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purply orange
color
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war makes you dead.
dead on the inside?
war dehumanises people
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War makes you a man
masculinity? why does it makes you a man?
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War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery
repetition of the words "war is"comparing it with postivie and negative
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But in truth war is also beauty
connotating war as something positive? beauty?
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It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.
amorality in war stories
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docs.google.com docs.google.com"Good Form"18
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Author may e trying to alienate us by contradicting himself saying that stories are untrue however the statment of them being untrue could be untrue. His daughter may be symbol of the audience, that believes what they hear, the stories that could be true or untrue and visversa. Shaping the character in the story as they wish.
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"Of course not."Or I can say, honestly, "Yes."
contradicting himself again
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I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
you ca be who you want to be in stories
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I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God
searching identities?
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make things present.
people can relate to it mroe if it's present
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twenty
his age at that time
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afraid to look.
this could realte to not informing yourself because you're afraid to know the truth
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real
rep, he is empathising the "real" to make understand that is happend
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real
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bodies
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bodies
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I want you to know why story-truth istruer sometimes than happening-truth.
he contradicts himself
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was not a pretty face,
beauty standards? how someone will look pretty while murduer
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my presence was guilt enough
not ding anything about it is also being guilty?
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I did not kill him. But I was present,
maybe trying to say that even though he was not the one doin it he saw it and somehow felt the same kind of guilt?
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it's not a game
its something important even though its fiction
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invented.
difference between true story and a false story
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blunt.
meaning? become less sharp?
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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hey were alive
selfishness
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standing in the rain.
lost
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bluish green mud
colors
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water.
water normally simbols life, here is completely opposite
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Jimmy Cross silently wished the boy luck.
some empathy, but no real contct
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free
ironic
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he could not come up with a name.
not even attach to his men. knows that they are just flesh and going to die anyways. self defense not to know them.
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Various sounds, various smells.
rep
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ragged and clotted
personification alliteration
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field seemed to suck him under,
personification
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He remembered switching on his flashlight. A stupid thing to do, but he did it anyway, and he remembered Kiowa leaning in for a look at the picture
only chance of being a normal 20 year old young adult.
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the boy
no name, "the boy"meaning small inocent. feels lonley
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not to cry.
boys dont cry masculinity strength
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rain fell in a cold, sad drizzle.
rain rep sadness asociated
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dark
death? rep.
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"Shit,
rep coloquial language
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shit.
vulgar coloquial language
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water kept rising
whats the meaning of the water? water = being lost? not knowing
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shit field.
rep
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A lost ball, he thought
fragment
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dark green
rep of colors
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green
color
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no fuss or ceremony,
inhumane? not important.
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"Like those old cowboy movies.
simil
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rains came back hard and steady
rep.
going in a circle
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what a fine human being, and how he was the kind of son that any father could be proud of forever.
mentally preparing for the worst.
family just gets a letter from the miliitar, yet, not his body?
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shit field
rep
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salvation under Jesus Christ
religion and compasion linked together?
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units but as human beings
contrast
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interchangeable units of command
repetition of the idea that men in war are machines, equipment, not human. War bring the inhuman part of human rase.
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trained to treat them
unlike human beans, they are trained to dehumanise partners
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filth seemed to erase identities
dehumanize rep
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thick waters.
personification
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steady
constant movement like machine
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quiet morning
personification
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silence.
hidding
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Maybe the worst ever.
fragment
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arms and face were filthy.
dehumanize, filthy = disgusting dirty face
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The eighteen
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18 soldiers
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thunder
rep: weather meaning: danger, danger proximity
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someplace dry and warm
safe place
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rain
setting, rain could symbolize sadness, danger?
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platoon
Platoon definition: a group/squad, is a military unit composed of two or more "squads"
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