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In this section O'Brien incorporates a bit of [FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE]. When describing the new medic, Bobby Jorgenson. He says, “He was green and incompetent and scared.” If you interpret literally that he is “green” it doesn't quite come off the way it is intended. Green is a term used to describe someone who is new to something. A lot of times I've heard the phrase green horn to describe a first year worker for many jobs. I'm pretty sure it is derived from plants and the fact that if you have say wood that is green then it is very fresh. Here it isn't extremely important or particularly helpful it just helps to get the point that O'Brien is making across more effectively.