The windows of the barracks are empty and dark. From some of them trousers are hanging to
dry. The rooms are cool and one looks toward them longingly.
O dark, musty platoon huts, with the iron bedsteads, the chequered bedding, the lockers and the stools! Even you can become the object of desire; out here you have a faint resemblance to home; your rooms, full of the smell of stale food, sleep, smoke, and clothes.
Katczinsky paints it all in lively colours. What would we not give to be able to return to it! Farther back than that our thoughts dare not go.
Questions:
1. Who is the you in this passage? What ifterary device is being used in this paragraph?
2. What is the first word that indicates any emotion?
3. Which paragraph has the most emotion? How can you tell (word choice)?
4. Identify the personification the used in the last paragraph.