Journal #15

1. Write a sentence that summarizes the story’s overall message, and provide three direct quotes from the story that best illustrate this message.

Do not give into peer preesure and listen to what others tell you.

"Yes, that letter of yours, that came back with his

other things, left him free."

"It was not to be read before--unless--until-- I told

him so,"

“I don't believe he was glad to die. He was

always a timid boy, that way; he was afraid of a good

many things; but if he was afraid he did what he h

made up his mind to. I suppose he made up his mind

to go, but I knew what it cost him by what it cost me 8

when I heard of it. I had been through one war before.

When you sent him you didn't expect he would get

killed."

2. What tactics does Editha use to make George believe as she does about the war?

She persuades him, and tells him how great she will be. Also, she threatens him. If he does not go to war, she will break up with him. She glorifies war, and makes it seem like a great and heroic thing.

3. Is there ever a time in which Editha truly understands what she has done? Does she ever experience an epiphany?

Yes she does at the very end. After she met with George’s mother, she moped around and was very depressed. She experiences and epiphany when her mother tells her the George’s mother said vulgar things, and that she shold not listen to her. It ends with saying that Editha continues to live in the “ideal”.