Quotes

Private War of Private Jacob~

"Crazy old Melford would be down on his hunkers next to you and give you a couple friendly punches and josh around and flash those white teeth until you were about to scream or run but instead you wound up saying: yeah gonna be a good one, Sarge" (301)

This quote shows Jacob's knowledge of Melford's disposition and it also explains Jacobs trepidation in explaining his true feelings about war to Melford.

''Look happy, Jacob' Sergeant Melford was always all smile and bounce before a battle. During a battle too. He smiled at the tanglewire and beamed at his men while they picked their way through"

This shows the relationship between Melford and his soldiers, and how their knowledge of Melford affects their efficiency on the battlefield.

"The stricken men began to stir and few of the most hardly wobbled to their hands and knees . Jacob threw back his head and laughed and laughed"

The knowledge that he will now become just like Melford has given him the strength to be cheerful, and the knowledge to become what he now has to become.

Frozen Journey~

"This is a very neurotic person, the ship realized. I am having an awful lot of trouble finding happy memories. There is too much fear in him and too much guilt. He has buried it all, and yet it is still there, worrying him like a dog worrying a rag."

The ship realizes that Victor has so much negativity stored inside him and now the ship has knowledge about the psyche about this kind of person. With this knowledge, the ship is now effectively able to asses what to do with this kind of person.

"He relaxed but he was terribly frightened. Theoretically, he should have gone under, into the the successful cryonic suspension, then awakened a moment later at his star of destination."

This tells us a lot about Victor and his psyche. This shows that he is initially afraid of everything because of past memories that made him this way.

"The ship understood it. The ship had been carefully monitoring Victor Kemming's brain wave patterns, and the ship knew that something had gone wrong."

This shows that the past knowledge that the ship obtained from previous encounters from this kind of brain waves helps the ship understand humans better.