The Manhunt Flashcards
Who wrote The Manhunt
Simon Armitage
Repetition of which phrase
‘only then would he let me’
‘only then would he let me’
2x emphasises the slow recovery process
What shows the physical brokenness of the soldier
‘Blown hinge’
‘Damaged, porcelain collar-bone’
‘Fractured rudder of shoulder-blade’
‘Rungs of his broken ribs’
‘Grazed Heart’
‘Damaged, porcelain collar-bone’
‘Fractured rudder of shoulder-blade’
Highlights fragility
Body is broken down into a series of separate parts
War dehumanizes people!
How does the wife help him
‘I bind the struts’
‘I bind the struts’
Figurative language that she is ‘patching him up’ to strengthen him
military language to show the damage on him
‘fractured rudder of shoulder-blade’
‘parachute silk of his punctured lung’
‘fractured rudder of shoulder-blade’
‘parachute silk of his punctured lung’
Military language to show the uselessness of his broken body
How is PTSD shown
‘unexploded mine’
‘unexploded mine’
Suggests that he may not have dealt with all of the PTSD yet and the tension that is caused because of his memories.
Last sentence to show the wife’s realisation of the extent
‘Then, and only then, did I come close’
‘Then, and only then, did I come close’
One last sentence
Wife’s realisation that her husbands psychological scars are worse than the physical ones.
