Remains

Question 1

Key Idea

Answer 1

Psychological effects of war – raise awareness for PTSD and to show they are constantly fighting once they start, there is no end.

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

Remains based on 2003 Iraq War who suffered from PTSD . Raise awareness about PTSD

Question 3

‘On another occasion, we get sent out’

Answer 3

Begins in media res to confuse the reader as they do not know what is initially going on and to mirror confusion of these soldiers as they are not emotionally prepared for what will come next, soldiers are launched into disastrous situations they don’t fully understand.

Question 4

‘His blood shadow stays on the street’

Answer 4

Death stains a person’s conscience and memory just as it stains the street, haunted by the memory and no way to escape it, he is internally fighting a never-ending battle.

Question 5

‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’

Answer 5

Armitage is making a pun and repeating the violent and gruesome nature of death, this event has cursed him and shows regret,