hulk through Chicago in a hedgerow afro
The author is using alliteration again to hear Mr. T "hulking" in a "hedgerow"
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What were we, the skinny B-boys, to learn from you?
The speaker specifically calls out Mr. T at this point as a bad role model for the young men in the African American community.
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vanished cricket, a floating maple leaf. Other days she starred until she was assured when she closed her eyes she’d see only her own vivid blood.
We see the contrast of the calming cricket or maple leaf vs days when "she'd see only her vivid blood". We see the loneliness and stress burdened upon the character that she feels certain days.
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So she lugged a chair behind the garage to sit out the children’s naps.
The author is giving the reader the idea that this is a mother or in a maternal type position. She wants a room to get away from the children, she has to take a chair out behind the garage for a little time to relax before the children wake up.
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She wanted a little room for thinking
The author is speaking in third person.
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ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets
Owen uses words like ecstasy and clumsy to get the descriptive picture into the reader's brain.
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Men marched asleep.
You can hear the rhythm of marching in the lines above and here he emphasizes it to get the picture.
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like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags,
Owen uses beggars and hags as similes for the soldiers trudging through the thick battle
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I’ve forgotten
An intimate moment. The speaker is rather in the moment with Donna rather than worried about what he is speaking about.
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to the heart
The speaker uses words to describe the fruit almost in an animal like way- "tear the meat", "meat of the fruit", "to the heart"
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Sniff the bottoms
You can almost hear the reader taking the action to sniff the bottom of the ripe fruit.
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persimmon
The speaker chooses to use this last word of the previous paragraph to start the first line of a new paragraph.
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persimmon and precision
An edible fruit vs a noun
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slapped the back of my head
This is already a different time and place than the 21st century American school system.
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He had dreamed of being an interpreter for diplomats anddignitaries, resolving conflicts between people and nations, settling dis-putes of which he alone could understand both sides.
His once passion that he thought would end in his dream life, has now been reduced to a job he hates and resents.
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"In a way, more dependenton you than the doctor.
The text makes note to how important Mr. Kapasi's job is.
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The camera slung around his neck, withan impressive telephoto lens and numerous buttons and tam’kings, wasthe only complicated thing he wore.
From the description you can already see and understand how many giveaways Mr. Das has that makes him look like a tourist.
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Martha, it would beonly to think that she belonged elsewhere. He would shut downthe daydreams. This was not Mount Sebastian, it was anotherworld, where there were no pretty poems or midterm exams, aplace where men died because of carelessness and grossstupidity. Kiowa was right. Boom-down, and you were dead,never partly dead.
Cross knows he is in a different world. A different life that changes a boy into a man. Martha is a million miles away and after the loss of Lavender it has all been made real again. He must stop pining for her love as he is dealing with a war and she is still at home and still rejecting his love.
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Awkwardly, the menwould reassemble themselves, first in private, then in groups,becoming soldiers again.
This icky and gnawing feeling inside of them makes them shameful after the times of panic. Instead of being one regathering themselves the awkwardly do at first in private and then when cleaned up a little bit regather with the rest of the group.
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Lee Strunkcarried his slingshot; ammo, he claimed, would never be aproblem. Rat Kiley carried brandy and M&M's candy.
This is difference in what they carried and wanted on their person at all times differs and shows the differences of these men and all the men that were in the platoon.
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but he wouldalways remember the feel of the tweed skirt and the kneebeneath it and the sound of the gunfire that killed Bonnie andClyde, how embarrassing it was, how slow and oppressive
He has this connection between the rejection of his affection and the gunshot that he will never be able to forget.
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Together, these items weighed between 15and 20 pounds, depending upon a man's habits or rate ofmetabolism.
Not only did these young men have to carry around the emotional and mental burden of war, but physical burdens.
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he woulddig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap theletters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the lasthour of light pretending.
Lietenant Cross had a daily ritual in remembrance/waiting for Martha. Almost like a comfort that made him feel closer to Martha or home or something else he missed, as all the men away from home do.
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He always went on like this, but he wasn't, ever, really as bad as he sounded, not even on weekends, when he got drunk. As a matter of fact, he was always on the lookout for "something a little better," but he died before he found it.
Addiction runs in the family
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I read about Sonny's trouble in the spring. Little Grace died in the fall. She was a beautiful little girl. But she only lived a little over two years. She died of polio and she suffered. She had a slight fever for a couple of days, but it didn't seem like anything and we just kept her in bed.
The speaker is still dealing with pain within his family and between his brother, but now he has lost his little girl. The difference thought is Sonny is an addict and even though he is, he has chosen this life. His little girl was taken away before the prime of her life.
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that she'd ever heard in all her life, and she still hears it sometimes in her dreams. Isabel will sometimes wake me up with a low, moaning, strangling sound and I have to be quick to awaken her and hold her to me and where Isabel is weeping against me seems a mortal wound.
The physical manifestation of the pain the speaker mentions he feels at the beginning of the story is here again, but felt by Isabel after Gracies death.
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where he was living, in a furnished room in the Village, and I tried to make it up. But there were lots of other people in the room and Sonny just lay on his bed, and he wouldn't come downstairs with me, and he treated these other people as though they were his family and I weren't.
The pain the speaker has to feel when family treats friends like family and you like a stranger. But also you see the speaker gaining perspective and seeing Sonny in a different light/ environment
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Isabel finally confessed that it wasn't like living with a person at all, it was like living with sound. And the sound didn't make any sense to her, didn't make any sense to any of them- naturally.
Sonny is slowing being engraved in their mind with the connection of his music. during this period of their lives.
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This car was full of white men. They was all drunk, and when they seen your father's brother they let out a great whoop and holler and they aimed the car straight at him. They was having fun, they just wanted to scare him, the way they do sometimes, you know. But they was drunk. A
Drunkenness is brought up, with the fear of the split of diversity and segregation that the speaker's family and culture all must deal with in their life and in this time.
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your Daddy had a brother." She looked out of the window again. "I know you never saw your Daddy cry. But I did-many a time, through all these years.
The speaker's mother is opening up about his father. Showing a side of him that their son did not know. The weakness and emotional side that each individual, no matter what they have been through, has.
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I thought Sonny was a smart boy, I thought he was too smart to get hung."
He is rethinking things and has the fear that if Sonny got caught he may too. Addictions catches up with you and will only bring fear and dread.
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looking just like Sonny. I almost called his name.
He now sees sony around and makes reminders and connections from the outside world and Sonny.
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All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.
The paranoia and fear that addictions brings effects lives all over, even young men with so much more life to live.
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for peddling and using heroin
We now know why Sonny was in trouble and in the news
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spilling out or that I was going to choke or scream.
The speaker is feeling the immense pain in his soul and person, it is coming out in a physical way making him sick, as it does a lot of us in uneasy times.
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