Themes - War Flashcards
1
Q
Barbara Berrill - was has more impact
A
Her father away fighting - mother taken lover.
2
Q
” You start playing some game, and your’e the brave one, your’e the great hero. But the game goes on and on, and it gets more and more frightening.” (ch10 p 203)
A
Uncle Peter explains what happens to him using second person and distancing himself from the awful memories/
3
Q
” You can’t think , you can’t move, You can’t see, you can’t hear. Everything is drowned by this great scream of terror in the darkness …. and it’s coming out of you.” (Ch 10 p 203)
A
Again uses the second person - he tells us what to feel to make it vivid and real.
