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Natalie Lopatowski
Mrs. Baione-Doda
AP Literature
30 October 2008

"What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"

I chose to use the title of the short story as my quote because I feel that the title is used as a question and is connected with the rest of the short story because it responds to the title.

The diction is very vague and not much detail, the passage’s main character is referred to as "he" because it seems like the character is seeking for something but is maybe confused about what exactly he is looking for. In the paragraph "he" says, "in another part of the world, this soldier dragged from his car, this soldier alone, this dead unbloody body in the dust under the truck—why does it set the man on edge, why does it feel so personal? The length of the title and body paragraph are also significant to the short story because considering there lengths the title is really long and the story quite short, this is so because the body paragraph relates on the way a horrific event going on from across the world can reach down to the T.V. and stab you in the chest. So basically the title says it all.