It has only been a year and his life has changed so much that he is no longer the same person; "He's lost his colour vary far from here,/Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry." (17-18) These two lines show readers that the soldier gave everything he had to fight that and he lost the life that he knew. ... Characterizing the soldier's injury as "a leap of purple [which] spurted from his thigh (20)" (92). ...

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