Bayonet Charge: Hughes

• Context: Being the child of a soldier with PTSD
• "Suddenly he awoke," in medias res (dropped straight into action,) vulnerable state
• "patriotic tear," fight for the king and country. let down by your king and country
• "threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame" is he another sildier
• 3 phases

  • immedio res
  • bewilderment then stops, time is almost frozen, existential crisis
  • let down by his king, honour, human dignity
• "dropped like luxuries in an yelling alarm"
• "his terror touching dynamite" soldier is more of a weapon than a human"