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give a quotation that shows the religious aspects in the artilleryman's fear
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when the narrator asks "where are you going?" and he answers "god knows."
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give a quotation that presents the artilleryman's inability to comprehend what has happened (hint: chapter 1- at the window) |
"they wiped us out--simply wiped us out," he repeated again and again.
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where does the artilleryman hit his breaking point?
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"then abruptly he sat down before the table, put his head on his arms, and began to sob and weep like a little boy"
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how does the artilleryman explain the motion of destruction in a triplet?
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"--then stumble, bang, swish!"
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what metaphor does the artilleryman use to explain what the Martians had done to the human race?
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"crippled the greatest power in the world. they've walked over us"
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what oxymoron is used to describe the curate?
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"his eyes were rather large, pale blue, and blankly staring" (blankly staring) |
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what rhetorical question does the narrator use when the curate starts to panic? (religious) |
"what good is religion if I collapses under calamity?"
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what metaphor does the narrator use to describe the curate? (end of chapter 3) |
"practically he had already sunk to the level of an animal" |
