Eyepiece

common-core vocabulary, they are longer in the third novel. The words are simple in the first two novels, but they are compounds in For whom the Bell Toll. For instance, “mountainside”, “flannel-shirt”, “leather-pack-straps”, “pine trees”, “pine needle”, “eyepieces”, “handkerchief”, “military map”, “sawdust”, and “sunlight”. We notice that even the adjectives used in For whom the Bell Toll are compound; “rope-soled”, “iron-stiff”, “wind-and-sun-burned”, “sun-streaked”, and “smooth-looking”.…