Futility Annotations
Futility Annotations
Futility Annotations
story of Adam and how God made Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his
Adam from clay. The ‘sun’ woke the nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
‘clay’, and began life. Source: http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-7.htm
2. Rhetorical question- further emphasises Owen’s bewildered state that
1. The tone becomes more bewildered-
the soldier cannot be resurrected (Questioning God/religion). If God’s
reference to limbs reflects the persona’s
existence is real why can he not rouse this soldier as he has done before?
refusal to believe the truth that limbs still
warm cannot be roused (awoken).