Question

Read the excerpt from A Rumor of War. We left Vietnam peculiar creatures, with young shoulders that bore rather old heads. What is the author attempting to convey to the reader using sensory language?

Answer 1

The right answer is "While their bodies were young, their minds were old".

The explanation for this answer is that when the author uses the expression "young shoulders" he is referring to a young body, and when he uses the expression "very old heads" he is referring to an old mind.

Probably the author used these expressions to say that although young, the peculiar creatures of Vietnam had a very mature maturity for their ages.

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Answer 2

Although they have young bodies they feel like old men.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this excerpt from "A Rumor of War" by Philip Caputo, what the narrator is attempting to convey to the reader using sensory language is that although the soldiers are young and have young and healthy bodies they feel like old men due to the experiences they had during the Vietnam War. This war, that lasted thirteen long years, is often considered as the only armed conflict that the United States lost. This text is one of the memoirs of the conflict.