First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending. He would imagine romantic camping trips into the White Mountains in New Hampshire. He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there. More than anything, he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her, but the letters were mostly chatty, elusive on the matter of love. She was a virgin, he was almost sure. She was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roommates and midterm exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. She often quoted lines of poetry; she never mentioned the war, except to say, Jimmy, take care of yourself. The letters weighed 10 ounces. They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. At dusk, he would carefully return the letters to his rucksack. Slowly, a bit distracted, he would get up and move among his men, checking the perimeter, then at full dark he would return to his hole and watch the night and wonder if Martha was a virgin.
The first person point of view is when a character is telling the story from his/her view. In first person point of view, the narrator is a character in the story; the narrator uses the pronouns "I," "we," and "us.".
The third-person point of view is a form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all the action of their work using a third-person pronoun such as "he" or "she."
The adverbial phrase that we can see in the sentence "Have you ever hammered a nail into a piece of wood" is an adverbial of place, this is used in the sentence with the same function as any adverb of place like backwards, behind, here, there, etc... it is easy to identify as an adverb or adverbial of place answers the question "where?".
Witches play a role of faith which is always a step ahead of Macbeth. He thinks that he understand the future, but faith is just playing with him the entire time. let me know if you have any further questions.
