remains Flashcards
“i see every round as it rips through his life”
hyperbole they were killing him unnecessarily like hunting for a wild animal shown in the quote “sort of inside out” “tossed his hits back into his body” and use of colloquial language; “legs it” “tossed” mates “ shows the carelessness
“hit this looter a dozen times”
juxtaposes the meaning of being a soldier and you’re supposed to fight for peace but instead you are tasking another man’s life as if it target practise.
doest specify how many times
“deam, sleep , blink”
semantic field of peace
volta change in mindset hes now facing the consequences of his actions and is no longer joking about it as it is effecting him
monosyllabic which show he is at peace but he is in fact from rom peace.
his bloody life in my bloody hands
metaphor blood could be presented as an extended metaphor of guilt
cyclical structure
repetition of bloody the killing is still fresh in his mind thays all he can think abour
ptsd: context
and the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out.
desperation to rid himself of the harrowing memories. The verb “flush” suggests that something needs to be cleansed or disposed of. It links to the unpleasantness of his memories.
Structure
Colloquial language - trying to hide the fact of what he done
