https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o Why Soldiers Won't Talk en-us 2017-09-21 14:48:10 UTC 2017-09-21 15:28:59 UTC hello@padlet.com adnauman https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189778786 Throughout the text, the author uses many various repetitions of certain words. One very important repetition that I noticed was of the words they and you in certain paragraphs. One of these was in the first paragraph, where they words were used 10 times. In relation to this, in the fifth paragraph, you words were then used 13 times. I believe that this shift in repetition demonstrated how the author wanted to make his essay more powerful by shifting from focussing on the harsh realities from the soldiers perspective to those of your perspective. By constantly reminding the reader that "you" and the one that is actually going through all this pain, the author makes the whole experience seem so much more realistic and painful.]]> 2017-09-21 14:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189778786 adnauman https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189780912 I also notice that the author used dense amounts of changing diction throughout the entire book. In the third paragraph for example the author uses lots of negative and painful diction, specifically with words such as "fear, poison, fatigue, ill, and explosion", among many others. This creates a sense of anxiety and fear, as the reader now directly witnesses the multitude of pain that soldier have to go through, and they are then introduced to the fact that all of these concepts keep building and building on each other, making the experience that much more painful.]]> 2017-09-21 14:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189780912 adnauman https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189783252 War is so painful and taxing that the mind of a soldiers becomes so fractured that the line between reality and fantasy is heavily blurred.]]> 2017-09-21 14:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189783252 adnauman https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189784089 I found it interesting that towards the end of the passage, that author shifts from the harsh and deadly tone to more of a confused and disoriented state. Towards the end the author describes how ones memory begins to fade and how you begin to have "dreamlike thoughts, visions, and memories". I think that this tonal shift can be used to display how the scariest part of the war might not be the violence or death, but instead the distortion of ones memory and the loss of actual comprehension or understanding of reality. ]]> 2017-09-21 14:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189784089 adnauman https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189786357 I also made an observation about how the author used many different words interchangeably. At the bottom of the first page, he talks about how the soldiers begin to form "dreamlike thoughts, visions, memories, and things". I find it interesting that instead of just stating that soldier have visions, the author uses four different words to show the abnormality of the situation.]]> 2017-09-21 15:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189786357 adnauman https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189788566 One paragraph that I found confusing was the sixth paragraph. The closing sentence mentions shell shock, but the rest of the text ignores this entire idea, and I feel like the topic could have easily been addressed.]]> 2017-09-21 15:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189788566 adnauman https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189790916 - The real pain of war is not the physical or emotional pain but instead the fractured mind that causes soldiers to lose their grasp of reality.
- The author emphasizes of war is a never ending cycle that causes soldiers to lose their sanity and thus not remember the pain that they went through (This concept is shown through a tonal shift towards the end, and the analogy to childbirth)
- The author also demonstrates how soldiers undergo pain physically, mentally, and emotionally, which all contributes to the trauma that soldiers experience (Shown by powerful diction and syntax with commas, and repetition)]]> 2017-09-21 15:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/adnauman/9pcdtyf95l0o/wish/189790916