ENG252Y5 Lecture 20: Nov 14.docx
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Going over: the somme, 1979 charles g. d roberts: refers going over trenches to rush into battle, lilacs, symbolizes love and a love left behind, peaceful death, the things that carry tim o"brien, even if you don"t die you are carrying some type of burden, psychological cost of being a soldier, shell shock language, condition of war. Convocation hall helena coleman: here their only power is seen with their thundering, sense of guilt for one"s life cannot be repaid, sense of responsibility as a collective shame, the war dead are voiceless, supply the voice that is missing some power back to those who have lost all power. Interlocutor: the one in which you speak to, he misses the point of the story, spring, new beginnings and opportunity, war time experience from the point of view of a women who feels like her life is made more free by the point of war, the attitude of this personable narrator, pg.
