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Prose Commentary, Pat Barker The title of the book from which this excerpt is taken, "Regeneration," highlights what I see as the main theme in this thought provoking prose piece. This piece of prose raises images for me of the moist dampness, humid soil, death and the prospect of life arising from the continuation of the cycle of life and death. These Images are shown in phrases such as the final sentence, which says, "Now they could dissolve into the earth as they were meant to." This sentence is the one which stuck out most to me in the whole excerpt; I found it very powerful in that it brings out the theme of "regeneration" to the reader and it is a sentence which sticks in your mind. I can see this as an overall whole picture, where "Burns," who I view as a returning soldier, perhaps from the Gulf War...

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