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IMPERIALISM CARTOON, 1882. 'The Devilfish in Egyptian Waters.' An American cartoon from 1882 depicting John Bull (England) as the octopus of imperialism grabbing land on every continent.

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IMPERIALISM CARTOON, 1882. 'The Devilfish in Egyptian Waters.' An American cartoon from 1882 depicting John Bull (England) as the octopus of imperialism grabbing land on every continent.

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Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I are Disappearing"

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Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I are Disappearing"

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"the social movement claiming to improve the genetic features of human populations through selective breeding and sterilization, based on the idea that it is possible to distinguish between superior and inferior elements of society"

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"To whom had Pocahontas prayed?" (156)

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Bobby is only an organ harvester in this respect - from his illness gathered from exposure to agent orange, he deprives his future children of being born healthy with all organs and limbs intact and functioning

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- Achilles and Achillea millefolium (the plant he supposedely carried into battle to tend his wounds

- Hyacinthus: beautiful young man and lover of Apollo, dies when the two are throwing discus and Apollo accidentally strikes him (fragility of living and of life)

- Narcissus

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"My war cannot serve your purpose, whatever that might be." (p. 151, Bobby to Clare)

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DEFOLIANT

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Bobby originally refuses to tell Clare what "really" caused the wound, later he himself is unable to know what's real.

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Bobby says that the child, had it come to term, would have been deformed; follows a similar arc as Bobby and Clare's relationship - "tainted" by the agent orange

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Wandering and trying to heal the wound, symbolic for her search to heal the wounds of her own past

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Comfrey is a very resilient plant, will take over entire fields, extremely hardy, little care necessary, incredible healing properties: can help treat anything, from a stomachache, to a sore throat, to mild wounds. (p.144)

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Vietnam war reference. Used by U.S military.

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"'...I don't trust myself with feeling'" Clare says to Bobby p. 154

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The brandy frequently consumed in this chapter. Popular in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria.

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Bobby walked off the military base with papers signed by "General Crispus Attucks" in 1969.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks

Crispus Attucks was the first American casualty in the American Revolutionary War.

There's obviously no way that Bobby would have contact with the real Attucks, so Cliff probably added this historical martyr as a literary device to reference the historical oppression of blacks during war.

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-"Whitemen watched him as he peed and wept" p. 150

-Clare's shame over her miscarriage

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-the mother who committed suicide after her son was blown up by an "American land mine" p. 147

-Bobby as a messenger telling "poor people their sons were dead" p.150

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Book Harry/Harriet is reading

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Yarrow-Achillea millefolium

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- Leg wound

- Trauma/PTSD

- Nightmares

- Hallucinations/flashbacks