Week 6 Post A

VOCAB-

 ambiguity: doubtfulness or uncertainty 0f meaning or intention.

trite: lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of a constant use or excessive repetition. 

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE-

1)" In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth"(77). Here a simile is used to compare the truth in war to the thread that makes cloth. He's saying that you need to tell the truth to be able to tell a war story.

2) " [...]Like a killer forest fire, like  cancer under a microscope[...]"(81). Another simile used to describe what war looks like. He obviously feels it is a morbid looking time because it's like "cancer" and "forest fires."

3) "Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead"(81). This quote feels like a part of figurative language just because of its thought and logic. Like your physical well being is not very lively when you're close to death, but the idea of almost reaching death creates a lively feeling. 

QUOTE-

" War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also a mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead."(80).  This is only an excerpt from a longer description of war, but in entirety the description is as well put as it can be. I think hoe the author describes the war is exactly how I would expect it to feel, and he captures every emotion. 

THEME-

Knowing and reflection upon how war effects one.