War

Three Day Road


While I was reading a certain part of this novel(66-67), the trenches and how they are described stands out most for me. How deep they are, and moist as well as steepness of these deep trenches. They describe mostly describe them as shallow ditches because that's what they mostly look like. I would feel very upset for the fact of sitting down low against the "earth" like they say, and hoping to not be seen, but feel as safe and quiet as possible as you are able to do. Elijah and Xavier describe in their words as they felt discomfort while being in those trenches, they had no where dry to sit down and sleep nevermind lie down anywhere in there. Nothing was ever comfortable for Elijah and Xavier to wear on their feet because the water was as deep as their knees, and would make walking feel like there was bricks on their feet. These scenes described what War was actually like and how it wasn't a breeze, nor easy to survive through these tragic and rough times. I could not imagine hearing a flare go up in the air and having to hit the dirt so my nose is touching the earth. Very minimum people will step forward and go there and live such a horrifying life like these people have done for many many years. This is more or else reality and something you should take into consideration with thinking how these guys live, and how they go some days or many days lying in these trenches, starving, and sleeping with one eye open at all times. Life would not be fun.