After leaving off in the book Soldier Boy by Dan Hughes, Dieter believes that it Is his life’s duty to fight for his country. He uses this quote more than one time, “standing up for the Fatherland, making it a great nation again.” While spencer starts to realize that the only reason he is doing this is to impress a girl he may not see for another 10 years because of war. This week feeling is going to be the focus, because of what these boys and feeling about being in this harsh war and maybe some of there regretting feelings. In this part of the book with really see some of the most gruesome, mentally and physically hardpoints in the book and in the war. We start to see how these young boys and handling being in this war. First starting with Spencer who is fighting with the idea of why did he sign up for this so profusely without thinking it over. In every chapter when it talks about him, he fights with the metal idea of dying for nothing because he states that he is confused about what he is fighting for, (for himself). While Dieter is the less developed person compared to Spencer, Dieter is still in the war, fighting with pride and sharing no inside feeling yet with us about how he is dealing with what he has gotten himself into. There have been some small hints during Dieter’s time in the book about him starting to regret his possible rest of life decision. In conclusion, the feeling of these characters so far might not be the same but are starting to become very familiar. We might start to see some changes in physical activity from Spencer and the mental change in dieter as this book starts to end.
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