To describe the smell would be an impossible task but with the dead bodies rotting in shallow graves and lying out in the open in no mans land, the smell of gunpowder, cigarette smoke, mud, and the gas that lingers for a few days after an attack might give you an idea of how bad it is. They say we will get used to the smell over time but it feels like it will never leave us at the moment. The smell also attracts rats and they are everywhere you look. Some of them are as big as Coda our cat. I shaved all my hair
“Man on the TV Say” and “Inconvenient” embody the socioeconomic disparities present in New Orleans and reveal why so many were unable to flee, despite the mandated evacuations. “Man on the TV Say” describes a news anchor’s orders to leave the city in colloquial terms. “Go, he say. Pick up y’all black asses and run.” (7). The poem instructs the poor, African American residents of New Orleans to abandon their homes with their “splinters and pocked roofs”, to “leave the pork chops drifting in grease and onion”, and to “leave the whining dog” along with “that purple church hat”.
I have now been in front line for just over a week. The smell out here in these trenches is so bad it has made our toughest men sick. The smell is so vile I can’t even describe it over a letter. To give you a an idea of what the men out here have to contend with, there is raw sewage from an open cesspit; body odour from men who haven’t washed in ages; dead bodies decaying in shallow graves, also they are out in the open in no man’s land. The smell of dead rotten bodies attracts rats.
Vardaman (ch 15) Vardaman runs out of the house and begins to cry. He sees the spot on the ground where he first laid the fish he caught, and thinks about how the fish is now chopped up into little pieces of “not-fish” and “not-blood.” Vardaman reasons that Peabody is responsible for Addie’s death and curses him for it. He jumps off the porch and runs into the barn. Still crying, Vardaman picks up a stick and begins beating Peabody’s horses, cursing them and blaming them for Addie’s death, until they run off. He shoos away a cow that wants milking, and returns to the barn to cry quietly.
And the Great Great Great Grandfather is now called the No-Good- Dirty-Rotten-Pig-Stealin- Great- Great- Great-Grandfather which the family has blamed for everything... Green Lake: Green Lake is Reasonably Punished because after Kate Barkow killed thoose people(trout walker, sherif) it stoped raining at the town, and ofcourse the lake started to get vapourised into clouds which took the lake away and rained down to the ocean. And now Green Lake i oficialy out of resources, for example: Water, Vegetables, and even the preacious peach trees.. so practicaly green lake is Now Dry lake. Plus Creatures whom likes the dry climate, will gather and make a stay at green lake such as, Scorpions and Yellow Spoted Lizards. Also other animals A.K.A pets will die pretty quick whitout food and water. So they will spread deasises and atract termites and bugs!
Her carelessness and lack of morals shines through towards the end of the novel when Nick rings to inform Daisy of Gatsby’s death, he discovers that she has “packed up and left”. One of the most powerful symbols in the novel is the sorrowful eyes of Dr T.J Eckleburg. We glimpse his eyes on a billboard located in The Valley of Ashes, frowning upon the dead and decaying valley. Seeing America as a moral wasteland. The eyes symbolize the eyes of God, looking down on the remains of a rotting society, “But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain”.
They lived in the trenches which were often water filled and rat infested. The smell of corpses and death was all around. Many of the doughboys were infested with lice or “cooties”, which was probably gotten from the rats. The sound of exploding artillery was heard and those who went “over the top” were often gunned down by German machine guns (The Western Front, 2010). For months these men lived in these trenches without baths, little food and knowing that death or mustard gas awaited them.
Towards the end of the book, Lord of the Flies, an officer shows up on the island where the boys were living, “Ralph looked at him dumbly. For a moment he had a fleeting picture of the strange glamour that had once invested the beaches. But the island was scorched up like dead wood- Simon was dead- and Jack had… the tears began to flow and sobs shook him… and in the middle of them with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 202). Ralph was snapped back to reality and seemed to fully understand what had happened and what was happening. Before he felt almost normal about what had been happening but that changed.
“Grendel came gliding, / girt with God’s anger,” (637). In using these words Grendel can be pictured as in human beast. There are further points made within the poem that show he is disgusting, “slash at the flesh, /bit through bones, /and lapped up the blood/ that gushed from veins/ as he gorged on gobbets,” (665-667). With this quote it’s very vivid what kind of monster he is seen as in the kingdom. It’s very one sided as the reader will discover there is no background information on Grendel and a reason for his actions.
I close my eyes and see frogs and beetles lined in the trenches filled with knee-high water. I can smell the pervasive stench of feces, body odor, and death. I see the maggots, and I feel the cold mud when I close my eyes. I still feel my body itching from the lice outbreak that never got under control because of our tight quarters and unsanitary conditions. I see men begging to have their feet removed, the flesh on their feet rotting away because of the chronic wet conditions in the trenches.