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SYMBOLISM: Butterflies are a symbolism of peace and tranquility. It's a juxtaposition because war occurred in that same area, thus intended to create a sense of confusion and unreal aspect to the death.
There were yellow butterflies. There was a breeze and a wide blue sky.
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SYMBOLISM/MOTIF: The reoccurrence of faces can be both a symbol and a motif because of the aspect of death that occurs throughout the story, as well as the understanding that these faces belonged to real people, but in doing so, it highlights the regrets and trauma within the survivors mind.
There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look. And now, twenty years later, I'm left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief.
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MOTIF: Death is very prominent within the story as well as the emotional and physical baggage that it brings upon comrades.
I wanted to tell Kiowa that he'd been a great friend, the very best, but all I could do was slap hands with the water. The sun made me squint. Twenty years. A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. In a way, maybe, I'd gone under with Kiowa, and now after two decades I'd mostly worked my way out.
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MOTIF: Storytelling is a reoccurring literary structure that enhances the main themes of physical and emotional burdens because these stories convey those burdens.
But listen. Even that story is made up.
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. |
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MOTIF: The reoccurrence of butterflies and birds and enjoyable scenery (rural) create a juxtaposition for both the character and the reader. It is a scenery that occurs again and again in order to convey meaning.
There were birds and butterflies, the soft rustlings of rural-anywhere.
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SYMBOL: Stories are representatives of present and past situations.
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
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SYMBOLISM: He utilizes these words to symbolize the lack of awareness that his daughter has about the war.
At the same time, however, she'd seemed a bit puzzled. The war was as remote to her as cavemen and dinosaurs.
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MOTIF: Guilt is a motif because it is a reoccurring idea that supports emotional baggage.
I did not kill him. But I was present, you see, and my presence was guilt enough.
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Judge will decide.
Identify a theme from the the summary.
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Judge will decide.
Identify a theme from the summary.
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