Read this excerpt from John Steinbeck's "Symptoms," which describes soldiers' horrific experiences in the war. How does the auth
or increase the emotional power of his essay?
This is how you feel after a few days of constant firing. Your skin feels thick and insensitive. There is a salty taste in your mouth. A hard, painful
knot is in your stomach where the food is undigested. Your eyes do not pick up much detail and the sharp outlines of objects are slightly blurred
Everything looks a little unreal. When you walk, your feet hardly seem to touch the ground and there is a floaty feeling all over your body. Even
the time sense seems to be changed. Men who are really moving at a normal pace seem to take forever to pass a given point. And when you
move it seems to you that you are very much slowed down, although actually you are probably moving more quickly than you normally do.
Steinbeck describes the physical effects of war, such as "thick and insensitive skin and "salty taste" in the mouth. These graphic descriptions in
the present tense attempt to show the gruesome reality of war to readers.
2. Steinbeck describes the otherworldly feelings and strange hallucinations felt by the soldiers to highlight how most people have a difficult time
comprehending war events
3. Steinbeck argues about the negative effect of war on soldiers, such as fatigue, mood swings, and post-traumatic stress disorders, to persuade
his readers to be antiwar and support peace.
4. Steinbeck uses the pronoun you while describing the horrific experiences of the soldiers. In this way, he makes the soldiers' suffering more
relatable to his audience.
5. Steinbeck uses scientific evaluation to analyze the negative physical and psychological effects of combat warfare and bombing raids, such as
blurred eyesight, hallucinations, and disrupted digestion.
1- The text seeks to show the true nature of war and the physical effects it has on soldiers. This passage describes how skin grows "thick and insenstive," how eyes can berely tell one thing from the next, and how stomachs ache due to the undigested food.
4- By using the pronoun "you" in this hard and bleak description, Steinbeck forces the reader to stand in the soldiers' place, to feel closer to what they experienced, and to understand their feelings from a more personal perspective.
<span>She could have looked at her note cards only occasionally. She could have provided longer clips from each horror film.I believe these are the two possible answers to make her presentation more effective and no I don't think that pretending to know the answer to the question is right ie that would not be acting with integrity or being modest. I think it is just as important to know what you don't know as it is to know what you know. That way, you can direct people to those who know or to references. </span>
D) While it is true that teachers don’t make a lot of money, there are many other (non-monetary) compensations for the low pay and they don’t live in poverty
