Explain the significance of the animal imagery in the line, "There was an occasional flash and glimmer of steel from the backs of all these huge crawling reptiles."

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Asked by Hani N #623977 on 4/26/2017 3:50 AM

Last updated by Aslan on 4/26/2017 3:55 AM

Answered by Aslan on 4/26/2017 3:55 AM

The soldiers were in long wet grass so Henry uses the metaphor of the men as as reptiles with the glimmer of their rifles.