Birdsong Quotes
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- Created on: 23-04-15 12:58
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- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Ellis is “frightened” by Weir’s “dishevelled appearance”.
- Derogatory word “dishevelled” shows Weir’s unkempt form
- Highlights how Ellis is naïve to the effects of the reality of war as Weir behaves in an unheroic way.
- Lack of understanding is furthered as he was unable to comprehend the “relationship” between Stephen and Weir
- Highlights how Ellis is naïve to the effects of the reality of war as Weir behaves in an unheroic way.
- Derogatory word “dishevelled” shows Weir’s unkempt form
- “Ellis had been killed by machine gun fire”
- Blunt short sentence
- Insignificance of his death as he is just another soldier who was unable to survive the effects of mechanical warfare.
- Fight for “your families, for your
King and your country”.
- Triplet
- Patriotism
- Belief of winning
- Foolish optimism
- “Colonel’s
dead”
- Short sharp blunt sentence
- Harsh reality of war
- The
men are “smashed by bullets” and Stephen is seen “hunched like an old woman in
the cocoon of tearing noise”.
- "smashed"
- Powerful destruction
- Simile
- Ironic
- Demonstrates Stephen's vulnerability and weakness as a "cocoon" is designed for protection
- But there is no protection from the violence of the onslaught
- Demonstrates Stephen's vulnerability and weakness as a "cocoon" is designed for protection
- Ironic
- "smashed"
- “humps
of khaki”
- Metaphor
- Loss of identity
- Only identified by their uniform
- “like
raving women…dying in ripples”
- Simile
- "ripples"
- Number of dead are forever increasing
- “Part
of [a sleeping boy’s] intestine slopped out” which “the sun began to bake”.
- Violence and physical effects associated with mechanical warfare
- Soldiers appear as "packets of lives"
- "packets" - men considered as indisposable
- "We are fighting for our country"
- "We" - pronoun - unity, comradeship
- Toad and harvest is "champion"
- Distant and detachment from Weir
- Son is real hero
- Repetition of "champion"
- Complacency
- Lack on interest
- Gas Attack Victim
- "Both of his eyes were oozing"
- Graphic
- "yellow froth from his lips"
- Graphic
- "peeled the boy's clothes from him" & "used a knife tro cut them off the flesh"
- Morals have been cut away by war
- "yellow froth from his lips"
- Nurse "stood back and turned her face to the heavens" & she "burst into shuddering tears"
- Pity for boy
- Compassion
- Nurses matrenal instincts
- "skin of huis cheeks and forehead were marked with bluish-violet patches"
- Colour
- Brutal
- "Both of his eyes were oozing"
- Ellis is “frightened” by Weir’s “dishevelled appearance”.
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