Remains

• "well myself and somebody else and somebody else"

  Colloquial language

  The soldiers are almost desensitised to the horrors conflict when they are immersed in it
• "l swear l see every round as it rips through his life" 


  Volients language _ "rip" emphasise brutality of shooting somebody

  Sensory language _ "l see" conveys a sense of the trauma it has caused the soldier as through it is branded on his memory

  Present tense _the use of the present tense links in with idea that this suffering is ongoing and he constantly re plays the memories  
• "sort of inside out tosses his guts back into his body"

  Gruesome imagery

  Indicates the reality of the war and lack of glory or honour associated with such job
• "his blood shadow stays on the street and out on the patrol" 


  Metaphor

  Indicates something dark that cannot reminder of what he did
• "his bloody life in my bloody hands" 


  Repetition _ reinforces the sense of frustration

  Bloody imagery _symbolises the guilt he is enable to rid himself