topography: the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
bandoliers: A belt fitted with small pockets or loops for carrying cartridges and worn across the chest by soldiers.
phantom: an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image, mirage, or optical illusion.
Figurative Language:
1. "... goes ass over teakettle"(6) a term used to described a body flipping and turning, and is figurative language because it is imagery and a form of personification (giving a human like characteristic to a non-human like thing).
2. " the eyes chilly"(8). Another form of personification or something that describes what the eye looks like, but the eye can't actually be chilly, and it is also imagery. But it is figurative because an eye can't actually be chilly.
3. " Suns and waves and gentle winds, all love and lightness"(9). Here someone is describing how their love for someone feels and it feels like the "sun and waves and winds," which is personification because he is giving an attribution of a personal nature to abstract notions.
Quote:
" He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men" (5). This is a very interesting quote because something physical the soldier is carrying is listed but then followed by something that isn't physically carried, but weighs more than the object that has an actual mass. This quote is sort of a set up for the mood and feelings of the rest of the book, because you understand his physical pain, but you feel the weight on his shoulders for the responsibility of other lives even more because it has so much more importance than a strobe light, and this is basically what the men carried : tangible and intangible things.
Theme:
The idea that you can carry both tangible and intangible things.
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