(O'Brien, 72)
Literary Term: Allusion
"Around dawn things finally get quiet. Like you never even heard quiet before. One of those real thick, real misty days- just clouds and fog, they're off in this special zone- and the mountains are absolutely dead-flat silent. Like Brigadoon- pure vapor, you know? Everything's all sucked up inside the fog. not a single sound, except they still hear it."
Shockingly, this novel made a call-out to all musical junkies. The musical Brigadoon in short is about a town that exist for one day only for every one hundred years. During the rest of the days the people of the town are asleep in the fog of the enchanted area they live in. The description of the fog fits in perfectly with the very detailed image of this fog, and gives it an enchanted aura. However, it's kinda hard to place singing, dancing, and Gene Kelly within a battle zone...and yet in a way it fits. While the troops follow orders and complete tasks, they always seem to find time to mess around. The delusional aspects of war have them going crazy and acting as strange as it would be to sing and have choreographed dance in real life. The following link will take you to the trailer for the film of Brigadoon, Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MEKyAQSpg
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Wow I didn't even see that little call out, but now it's underlined in my book lol. I think Brigadoon was also a book so Gene Kelly might of been out of O'Brien's mind
ReplyDeleteHa ha, It deserves to be super highlighted in your book; and I think Gene Kelly was most certainly on O'Brien's mind. Its Gene Kelly!
ReplyDeleteYes, Gene Kelly is on all of our minds in some minute and unexplainable way... I love the imagery of Gene Kelly on a battle field though! But I have to admit, it does take a lot of the gravity out of his message. .. :D
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