{"id":1386,"date":"2025-11-17T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:45:53","slug":"pale-horse-pale-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Pale Horse, Pale Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Page 307 there is an interaction between Adam and Miranda that REALLY REALLY stood out to me. Miranda makes a declaration about the war that is one of the most straightforward things I think we have read. Like all the books we have read have the same undertones and themes that say the same thing as what Miranda says on page 307 but none as direct as her. She says “The worst of the war is the fear and suspicion and the awful expression in the eyes you see…<\/mark>…… I live in fear too, and no one should have to live in fear.” (we are gonna focus on the blue words when I compare what she said to what Adam responds with but I wanted to include the fear part of her quote because I think thats a pretty progressive and compassionate statement for the time. I think during this time with the war, the flu, everyone is struggling individually that it was a pleasant surprise to see someone who is dying from the flu recognize the pain of everyone around her. Like she is still sad and heartbroken for other people even as she struggles herself and its nice to see a character who isn’t completely centered on her own suffering ( not to say I don’t understand why other characters we have read have been solely focused on themselves because that’s valid they are going through a lot but I like this compassion and I think it speaks volumes that she said “no one should have to live in fear” instead of just talking about her self. like we need that energy)) So she’s talking about how the war inflicts emotional, psychological and physical damage to everyone, and she specifically gives more details about how unsettling eyes become after the war and how they have “pulled down the shutters over their minds and their hearts.” Notice how she says their EYES are scary not their faces. And Adam eventually responds saying “If I didn’t go, I couldn’t look myself in the face.” He says in the face not in the eyes. The phrase should be in the eyes but he says in the face. Even when I went to type the quote from the book, it automatically autocorrected to “in the eyes” because that is what the saying is and he deliberately says face. It’s a small detail but I found it incredibly important as it changes the whole interaction in my opinion. It reveals ALOT about Adam’s character. When he says “face” instead of “eyes” he’s agreeing with her and they are interlinking. He’s agreeing that war can change people and war is bad and he probably won’t be able to look himself in the eyes after it but even in knowing the truth about war (as opposed to most of our characters who before the war didn’t know the full truth) he still feels he has to go because he doesn’t think his enlightenment puts him above the rest or excuses him from suffering. And that is the moment I knew he was doomed. He’s labeled as a sacrificial lamb and on page 308 we see another foreshadow when “For just one split second she got a glimpse of Adam when he would have been older, the face of the man he would not live to be.” Anywho I know in the end page 307-308 were minor but I thought it was interesting how much foreshadowing and attention to detail revealed so much about each of their characters. There’s a lot more analysis to be done about the rest of the book but it’s super depressing so I chose to spam about pages that wouldn’t make me cry. #ripadam:(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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