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The form of Birdsong by Seb Faulks... HELP

How would you describe this apart from being a novel???
an explicitly graphic account of world war one
because it was relesed many years after the war we can see the truth rather than novels at the time/ poems at the time of war such as those of rupert brooke which gived false visions of what went on in the war
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Oldspeak
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well you'd probably have to go into a bit more depth about how it's split into the past and present, and symbols that are present in both sections etc.
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mangomaz
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Also split between before the war started and after the war started.

Also its one of the most beautiful and moving books I've ever had the fortune of reading. Would be awesome to study it.
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Kink
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Like others have said, narrative is not straight forward, so you get the 'wisdom of retrospect' etc.
Also, letters. Talk about the use of the letters from the soldiers and the main woman (can't remember her name already.. did this last year as well!)
Think about what a conventional novel is, and write about why Birdsong does and doesn't conform.
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02mik_e
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Kink
Like others have said, narrative is not straight forward, so you get the 'wisdom of retrospect' etc.
Also, letters. Talk about the use of the letters from the soldiers and the main woman (can't remember her name already.. did this last year as well!)
Think about what a conventional novel is, and write about why Birdsong does and doesn't conform.

Elizabeth, Isabelle and the other one, but it's most likely to be Elizabeth.
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gfjdetjerh
Flip those pancakes
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gfjdetjerh
Original post by gfjdetjerh
Flip those pancakes


No
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gfjdetjerh
Original post by gfjdetjerh
Flip those pancakes


No no no no no
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Irrí
I think one of the main things to remember with it is that it's reminiscent of the frankenstein form of tale within a tale - which gives it that hint of reality.

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