😣 remains quotes Flashcards
1
Q
- remains
- emphasises the possibility but reassures himself
- uncertainty and wants justification, guilty
- anaphora
- may have weapons
A
‘probably armed, possibly not’
2
Q
- remains
- lack of care or respect to the body
- devaluation of human life
- rhyme of ‘body’ and ‘lorry’
A
‘tosses his guts back into his body / Then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry’
3
Q
- remains
- connotations of waking up
- flashbacks
- merging of reality from memory
A
‘But I blink / and he bursts’
4
Q
- remains
- warzone is no longer real but in his head
- PTSD
- desensitized by war
- close eyes
A
‘he’s here in my head when I close my eyes’
5
Q
- remains
- idiom ‘risky or verging on offensive’
- hands
- PTSD causes him to relive the past as if its happening again
A
‘but near to the knuckle, here and now,’