quantity of guns.
the boy has to kill and murder in order to meet the president. he has guns attached to him in his virtual mind as he's playing the video game.
quantity of guns.
the boy has to kill and murder in order to meet the president. he has guns attached to him in his virtual mind as he's playing the video game.
MEET THE PRESIDENT!”
Is an actual board game where you can answer questions about presidential history.
I.E.D.s awaited detonation.
What is an I.E.D? I am assuming it's some sort of a bomb.
Anglia
is this a city? or..
“AG 12.”
what is AG 12?
intent young men at their monitors
another point that shows the men are in their head and their reality is attached inside their heads.
“Can you see us?” The old woman let go of her charge and waved her hands wildly. The tips of her fingers barely reached the top of the boy’s head. “Are we in it? What are we?”
more evidence that he is in a virtual reality video game. The woman is asking if the boy can see her.
He touched the node on his finger to the node at his temple, raising the volume.
Seems like his brain is his virtual world and he can decide whether or not to turn it off. For example, when he's at the beach and then all of a sudden in another video game type world.
I joined them, flew among them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would
Jeff rose up into heaven? The birds recognized him as the same because all humanity should be given a chance. We learn that Jeff understands now how to empathize and realize his actions hurt others. For the first time he realizes not to kill and he would never do it because he is willing to sacrifice himself for someone he loves.
My only regret was Mom. I hoped someday, in some better place, I’d get a chance to explain it to her, and maybe she’d be proud of me, one last time, after all these years.
Jeff's only regret was his mom because he let her down by all the bad things he did that sent him to jail. He wishes to meet her again, and when he does he wants her to be proud of him. That he chose to spare her life and die himself in the power of love.
Vivistif™
Vivistif is a sexual enhancement drug
Verbaluce™
Verbaluce is a language fluency enhancer, making users more fluent or persuasive. Removes inhibitions against speaking. Makes the user describe events vividly and clearly. http://eclipsephase.com/more-drugs
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
these two lines shows imagery to the reader. It paints your eyes an orange and black color. You imagine this tiger walking through green. (grass, a field, etc).
chivalric certainty.
maybe this line suggests that she is no longer afraid of men? and that she is brave now.
Or is it that she sees the tigers as chivalric and wishes she could be that way too?
Not sure if the Tigers represent her now or if she is comparing herself to a brave animal and wishes to be more like them?
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
The tigers are fearless and don't fear any man, unlike she does.
tigers
Tigers in this poem could symbolize bravery, boldness and dominance. Aunt Jennifer shows us that the tiger symbolizes these characteristics and they stand tall, even after all the pain she has experienced.
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
I believe what this line is trying to say is that her relationship is painful and it is dragging her down in her life. This line shows pain towards the reader.
Aunt Jennifer’s finger fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull. The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
Maybe the wool keeps getting stuck on her ring and it reminds her of the hardships with her husband/man. Also could there be a reference to domestic violence here? 'The ring on her finger' could suggest that her relationship problems consumed her and dominated her (as if "she was mastered by" it). Aunt Jennifer seemed like she can't escape the situation.
tigers in the panel
Family heirloom = panel/tigers and family history
Aunt Jennifer’s finger fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
Someone in a family house, looking/observing life in that moment (knitting).
for the windows are barred for little children,
shouldn't this set off an alarm in her head? I wouldn't be happy living here.
full of box-bordered paths
the idea of being controlled
why should it be let so cheaply?
she is wondering why the house is priced so low
hereditary
meaning = inherit through bloodline home, power, origin
How public – like a Frog –
This poem uses a lot of enjambed lines. This line is also a simile. To be like a frog could mean carefree and wild. "How public" directly means what it says, saying a frog is public or out in the open outdoors. A nobody might feel trapped, depressed, sad, lost.
Don’t tell! they’d advertise
It seems like this means that the "somebody" would tell everyone else and the "nobody" does not want that maybe due to embarrassment.
Somebody
Somebody meaning that someone else is way better than a nobody
impassioned
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