This part of the novel shows a role reversal and a switch of characteristics and personality between father and son. The way in which they speak to each other changes. The boy is usually the one asking all the questions and feeling like he's annoying his father, but when they see the baby on the spit it changes and the father is the one asking his son "What is it?" I think this shows how even after all the sights they have seen the father is still unable to come to terms with it and the father is almost asking if it's all real. The father is also the one now apologising, "Im sorry, he wisperd. I'm sorry." This does show i sign of emotion. He feels for his son and apologises as the last thing he wanted was to upset his son. He is also not just apologising for this event but every one that the child has been through and every one that he has to come.
The boy also changes his attitude towards this sight. He says "Oh papa" and usually he would cry or burry his head in his dad, but this time he turns round for another look. The boy is starting to build up his courage and he doesn't break down when incountering something as horrific as this. It also shows how events like this are just becoming the norm to the boy and his father, it's now not an unusual sight to them.
Punctuation is as usual in the novel - very limited. "Headless and gutted and blackening on the spit" There is not use of comma's just repeated use of 'and'. This picks up the pace when you're reading it as the event is supposed to be a traumatic one.
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