When we talk about war I think we can all agree that the most memorable one are World War 1 and World War 2.
Today we are talking about the film ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ which is based on World War 1. When I first saw the film in class, I realized that war is not a game. In the beginning of the film we saw how the Britain recruited their soldiers. We know that most of them were underage because their age range is between 19 to 35 but some teenagers aged 17 and 8 still attended the war and when they were asked they all faked their age to be 19.
In the beginning all of the Britain thought the war was game like but obviously it is not a game. It is a war you have to be aware of everything around you or you are gone, so I don’t think that this is a game.
During the training of the army the soldiers had learned who they were and what they were good at the funniest part for me was when one of the old soldier sang the song for their food ‘Pickler’s jam’ and it sure was a good song.
If I had to go to war my most concerned part is not death is the cleanliness part, according to the film the Britain had dug a hole for secretions and just sitting on a log which might be unstable and one time four Britain soldiers had fell into it yuck and having to wear the uniform for how long the war goes, good bye!
The most interesting thing for me was before they went on the battle field they drank alcohol so called ‘liquid courage’ I am really curious about it since I have never tried any alcohol I don’t know what they would do to your body.
It sure is lucky for us now that we don’t have a war and have peace everyday I wish this could be kept on everyday.
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This was a really interesting Personal response! One thing I’d like to see more of is a deeper explanation of how the movie They Shall Not Grow Old affected you more. Other than that, I really liked how you described what parts of the movie stuck out to you!
I found this light and breezy personal response refreshing in comparison to the numerous emotionally heavy pieces. This take on the film proved to be intriguing and I find it amusing that you have mentioned a concern that no other student has seemed to have had. I agree in terms of the cleanliness concern and am glad that someone has finally mentioned this factor. By speaking about a trivial factor such as cleanliness, it truly puts the reader into the perspective of a young soldier and how if it were us today in the trenches, cleanliness genuinely would be a large concern of ours having had the privilege of a clean environment for most of our lives.
I think this post it’s very detailed and that’s a good thing because it’s great how you talked and reminded us what a day was like in the war. Like for example you talked about how, before going to face the Germans, they drank alcohol to not to be anxious or afraid.
I like when you wrote “The most interesting thing for me was before they went on the battle field they drank alcohol so called ‘liquid courage’ I am really curious about it since I have never tried any alcohol I don’t know what they would do to your body.”, because I can see, what you sink, and so I can understand the writing more.