Unseen Commentary Passage W unveiled

1. Introduction:
   
   1. Thesis: John Reed, through his use of techniques such as figurative language, imagery and diction, creates a beautifully complicated and interrupted setting in his novel The War in Eastern Europe.
      
2. Body
   
   1. Visual Imagery
      
      1. Young crops…rich hills
         
         1. Magnificence of the country side
            
         2. Seasonal
            
         3. Youth signifies the country itself
            
      2. "of Romania"
         
         1. Location
            
         2. Implications of being in that country
            
      3. The horses woke…
         
         1. Laziness of the day
            
         2. Strange foreignness of the horses
            
         3. People in the town are doing nothing
            
   2. Thermal imagery
      
      1. Windless moist heat
         
         1. Uncomfortable
            
         2. Sticky= irritable?
            
   3. Auditory imagery= implies a certain sense of barbarism or agitation from the peasant driver as he escorts the narrator
      
   4. Personification
      
      1. Sun rose
         
         1. Unnatural
            
         2. Violentà poured down
            
      2. Rose the rich hills
         
         1. Hills part of the country
            
         2. Couldn't miss them= massive
            
   5. Figurative language
      
      1. "like Zeus hidden in his cloud"
         
         1. Scene looked mythical and unreal
            
         2. Zeus= they are powerful and god like?
            
3. Conclusion: All aforementioned devices used by Reed paint the paradoxical setting which is the juxtaposition of the beautiful country sides of eastern Europe with the war zones and mass casualties of war.