Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war
in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there. What effect does Hemingway's limited use of adjectives have?
This excerpt shows how a very limited use of adjectives provoke a clinical and emotionless description of an event that the narrator brings forward as if he´s describing a recepy for apple pie. As if everyone involved ignores the fact that they can get killed...
In medieval towns, unhealthy living conditions led to the spread of illness. The town were very dirty places. There was no running water in homes, and people used outdoor privies or chamber pots instead of bathrooms, which they emptied into nearby streams and canals.
