Remains Flashcards
one of them legs it up the road
Colloquial language used to maintain the authenticity.
probably armed, possibly not
The narrator attempts to justify his actions but the repetition of this phrase shows his clear discomfort at the thought of killing an innocent man.
Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind
The soldiers are no longer individuals. They have been programmed just to follow orders.
it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side.
This phrase has a double meaning to either represent the hole in the dead man’s body or heaven.
and he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out
Graphic languages show how the memory is still vivid in his mind.
tosses his guts back into his body
The reader shares the speaker’s sense of disturbence.
body…lorry
Para-rhymes represent the narrator’s discomfort and unease.
End of story, except not really
At first the narrator believes he has escaped the memory.
Then I’m home on leave.
The full stop signifies the time that the narrator spends thinking about what he did (PTSD.)
he’s here in my head when I close my eyes dug in behind enemy lines
Metaphor shows how he is trapped in his thoughts.
his bloody life in my bloody hands
shows that he feels guilty as he uses bloody to show his anger that he did it and wish he could take it back.
