It's up to you to decide

Going along with my last comment on diction, I think a sentence containing ambiguity found in the text should be noted. The sentence, “In its intransitive form, to hump meant to walk, or to March, but it implied burdens far beyond the intransitive.” Once again, O’Brien goes with the idea of the intangible factors weighing more than the tangibles they carried on their backs. Here, we are fortunate enough for O’Brien to give us the duplicitious meaning of the word “hump”. However, from this point on, I believe it us up it us to recognize how he often implies this idea with future diction found in the text.