2nd soldier boy part

After leaving off with Dieter being 15 workings with the Hitler youth and what it looks like becoming eager and more eager to enlist to fight. We start reading about there next stages of life possibly heading into combat soon. Now entering these boys the first taste of war spencers battalion gets dropped of nearer to the front lines, Spencer starts to realize that what his sister said earlier in the book that he was just trying to ” Show up Luann” his crush. After spencers the first couple of days in London, he and his battalion are sent to the Ardennes Forest. Hitler undertook a surprise attack across the Belgian and Luxembourg borders, going fare into the Ardennes Forest.  Dieter is still fifteen and part of the Hitler Youth, digging trenches that he wishes he could be fighting in. In this part of the book, it is just these two boys preparing for the hardest times of there life. Listing some more similarities and differences of these boys, one is that Dieter believes that it Is his life’s duty to fight for his county uses this quote more than on time,l “standing up for the Fatherland, making it a great nation again.” While spencer start to realize the only reasons he is doing this is to impress a girl he may not see for another 10 years because of war. A Similarity about these boys is that how there aren’t view them going to war, with either father, a veteran of the Great War, who never talks about “the brave German boys”, because of the number of boys he has seen die and come home wounded of war. Also with Spencer’s parents making sure that this is what he really wanted to do with his life, being worried about him. In conclusion, we will see how these boys handle the devastation of war times mentally and physically,

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