Question

Read the excerpt from Dispatches.

The far side of the hills around the bowl of the base was glimmering, but you could never see the source of the light, and it had the look of a city at night approached from a great distance. Flares were dropping everywhere around the fringes of the perimeter, laying a dead white light on the high ground rising from the piedmont. There would be dozens of them at once sometimes, trailing an intense smoke, dropping white-hot sparks, and it seemed as though anything caught in their range would be made still, like figures in a game of living statues. There would be the muted rush of illumination rounds, fired from 60-mm. mortars inside the wire, dropping magnesium-brilliant above the NVA trenches.

The sensory details in the excerpt evoke a sense of
awe and wonder.
confusion and disgust.
hope and strength.
surprise and excitement.

Answer 1

The sensory details in the excerpt evoke a sense of...:

...awe and wonder.

There's description of mysterious lights, as well as flares and sparks. The adjective choices show awe and wonder: great, dead white, intense, white-hot, brilliant... Plus, there is a quite meaningful direct comparison here: "it seemed as though anything caught in their range would be made still, like figures in a game of living statues." The fact the author talks about "living statues" also shows awe and wonder.

Answer 2

Investigations into topics surrounding British society, politics, health, international affairs and the environment.

Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to, revises, and thinks adjacent to the news of racial/gendered violence in the US, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

How long can Excerpts be?

A simple rule of thumb is that longer excerpts should pass the “stand-alone” test, meaning that whatever is contained within those words has the potential to spark a debate, ignite thoughtful discussion on the subject, or reveal something about the book that sets it apart.

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