ENG 1120 Lecture 10: ENG 1120 - Lecture 10
15 Aug 2018
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We see that the children at home in toronto value the letters that they receive from their family members in the war because the letters have the smell of fire (67). Immediately after this, on the first page of section two, we see that the front lines of battle are not characterized mainly by fire, but by its opposite. The front is a place of endless water and, therefore, of mud. The disorientation that we experience at this moment is also the disorientation of the soldiers, who find themselves lost in directionless fog and struggling through endless mud. After a while, the form of the narrative also begins to reflect this sense of disorientation. By the beginning of section three, even the chapter numbers have disappeared; the most obvious form of sequential order that structured the narrative itself has vanished, leaving us somewhat bewildered as to our whereabouts while we read.
