Red Cavalry, Day 1

I started Red Cavalry today, a little nervous, because I was warned about how bloody and gritty its contents is. What I noticed most when I read was the bizarre comparisons he makes like comparing the sun to a severed head. Though little wierd, this puts you into the correct mindset for the stories, all from the point of view of people living the war, and therefore seeing things in such a way. The book also somehow displays the horrific tragedy of war with a commonplace, lacksadaisical tone, which also serves to expose the psychological effect war has, shown by the solierin the first story to be rather unaffected by the fact that there was a dead body i the room, killed in front of his daughter, who as a civilian is greatly affected by this, showing the less jaded, more human loss that war brings.