The land is alive

Kind of backtracking a little bit, I remember O' Brien telling a story about how when I group of men went into the jungle of Vietnam and sat disguised in one spot for while. After some time, they started hearing some crazy things that sounded like a banquet in the middle of the forest. To me, this seemed like an anthropomorphism because there seem to be human-like characteristics to the land of Vietnam. This is very effective when used by the author because when he starts talking about how the land is alive, the reader begins to think how this is one of those not so true war stories, but with that deeper meaning. The story becomes to be a little far fetched and that becomes to be true when the guy telling the story goes to O'Briend and tells him how he had to make a few things up. What the guy says is on page 71: "They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing...they hear chamber music...not human voices, though. Vecause it's the mountains. Follow me? The rock--it's talking."