How does the writer use language here to describe the rat? He saw it there, pushing through and twisting its head, saw the wet greasy fur and its mean
red eyes. He kicked at it and missed. The rat scuttled out from the tiny gap between the slat
supports and ran across the mud. Normally Alfred would have let it go. Rats were, after all,
commonplace but something, whether pent-up anger... hate... loss... pain... boredom,
whichever it was made him give chase after it.
The creature appeared sluggish, as if it were weighed down with overeating. It had most
likely been feeding on what was caught, left behind, in the lines and coils of barbed wire
which stretched for miles beyond the trench. The terrible sad debris of dead soldiers. The
remains that were left behind after a 6am push.

* Look for two or three powerful quotes that you are confident you understand and can
explain. What does the quote make you feel or think or imagine?
REMEMBER to USE = T(Technique), E (Evidence), E (Explain), Z (Zoom)
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