[The exhilaration) was usually followed by more of the same hot walking, with the mud
sucking at our boots and the sun thudding
against our helmets while an invisible enemy
shot at us from distant tree lines. ... Weeks
of bottled-up tensions would be released in a
few minutes of ... violence, men screaming
and shouting obscenities above the
explosions of grenades and the rapid, rippling
bursts of automatic rifles.
-A Rumor of War, Philip Caputo
One inference the reader can make based on this
passage is that warfare in Vietnam was
characterized by
O constant, violent action and emotional
Outbursts,
O monotony and endless boredom.
O a lot of walking and short, intense conflicts,
successful battles that encouraged American
troops.
DONE

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the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this