Wider reading - 7/11

In this post i will be looking at how Faulks represent Stephen through a quote from Birdsong saying “He felt the simple elation of his victory”. 

This quote is after Isabelle and Stephen have left Azaire because they admitted to the affair they had, but Isabelle do feel guilty about leaving the children behind and just run from everything, she especially feel guilty because she doesn't want them to grow up in the same way she grew up, without having parents who cares, but Stephen doesn't see this and don't understand Isabelle.

The quote “He felt the simple elation of his victory” is showing us a negative side of Stephen, because it tells us that he doesn't think, like I mention before, about the consequences it would have for Isabelle and what she has to give up, or how she feels. He only saw that he won. By using the noun “victory”, it shows that he is seeing Isabelle as a trophy that he needed to win to be better then Azaire, but it does also make him seem a little childish, because it makes it sounds like it is just a game he needs to win. It could also be used because he sees Isabelle as his one and only, she is his 'sweetheart', which he needed to save from the horrible life she was living with Azaire beating her and the noun “elation” does tell us that Stephen is happy to be with her and that she is the one he want.

By him not thinking on what impact it will have on Isabelle, it shows he is still young and a bit immature, and that he hasn't been in any serious relationship before, so he doesn't know how to control it.

Be using the adjective 'simple', it tells us that this seem quit easy for Stephen to just take her away, and that he didn't really give it a thought, he just did it which again lead back to being immature and this being his first real love.

Analysing language

Journey´s End.

In page 65, Raleigh says "I say - it is most frightfully exciting!" which is after Raleigh getting told that he gets to participate in the raid. The quote could mean that he is so excited that he finally gets a job to do and it is a big thing, because he is new in the Company and wants to get out there and see how everything is. But at the same time we know that if Raleigh knew what might could happen to him, he wouldn't be that excited about being picked to the raid. On the other side we have Osborne, who we know, from the short little answer he gives back to Stanhope "I see." (page 60), isn't that exciting about being picked  because he knows that this could be the last time he ever returns back to the trench.
By the way we see Hibbert 'trembling' and 'crying without effort to restrain himself '(page 56-57) Sherriff shows us that war is traumatic and Hibbert definitely can't take the stains of war anymore. We also see the stress and fear there is suffered by the men during the war on Hibbert when he trys to escape before the big attack, "I tell you, i can´t - the pain's nearly sending me mad."(page 55)
The quote "It's rotten to send a fellow who's only just arrived"(page 53) tells us that Stanhope didn't wanted Raleigh to be pick, because even though Stanhope is tried of Raleigh being send to his Company, he still don't want anything to happen to Raleigh. We could might think that the reason Stanhope doesn't want anything to happen to Raleigh is because of his sister. That Stanhope doesn't want to be the one who has to tell Raleigh's sister if anything bad happens, because of their past together. Or maybe he is still affected by the words he heard Raleigh had used to describe him with.