"Facing It" --p535 #1, 2, 5
"Facing It" --p535 #1, 2, 5
1. The wordplay indicates his face reflected in the memorial, but also facing the loss of life from the war.
2. He disappears against the black granite. He finds a name and touches it. Perhaps it is the name of his father. The name disappears against a woman's shirt (it is a highly reflective surface), a bird is reflected, a plane, a one armed veteran, a woman brushes a little boys hair. The play of reflection might be commentary on not being seen? I really don't know, but I have heard that a lot of black soldiers that died were not even counted, so perhaps it is a play on being "white washed" from war history.
5. I feel that the writer is paying reverence to lost friends or family. His going to the memorial and searching for names, and feeling absorbed into the monument, and really.... I get the sense he feels lost among the white faces and veterans, seems to be commentary about the role black people played in American involved wars.
1. The wordplay indicates his face reflected in the memorial, but also facing the loss of life from the war.
2. He disappears against the black granite. He finds a name and touches it. Perhaps it is the name of his father. The name disappears against a woman's shirt (it is a highly reflective surface), a bird is reflected, a plane, a one armed veteran, a woman brushes a little boys hair. The play of reflection might be commentary on not being seen? I really don't know, but I have heard that a lot of black soldiers that died were not even counted, so perhaps it is a play on being "white washed" from war history.
5. I feel that the writer is paying reverence to lost friends or family. His going to the memorial and searching for names, and feeling absorbed into the monument, and really.... I get the sense he feels lost among the white faces and veterans, seems to be commentary about the role black people played in American involved wars.
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