Stick Soldiers

The two stories I chose are Stick Soldiers and The Range . In Stick Soldiers he talks about the different perspectives that are effected in the war. The soldiers, the American kids, and the foreign kids. It is Christmas time and he talk about what each of the two kinds of kids are drawing asking for during  the holiday season. The American kids are drawing basic Christmas themed things including trees and presents and they go on saying what they want  for Christmas including dolls and pets and another kid promises that he will be praying for them. Then it goes onto talk about what the soldiers talk about once receiving them and that they save the ones they like. Then, it goes onto say that the kids in Jalula also draw for them but they are not on paper and their drawings are themed a bit different than the American kids.  They draw stick figures of soldiers with guns and they are on chalkboards and on Humvees. This different from the previous works because those really just concentrated on the American soldier's perspective and made the foreigners seem animalistic while this makes them seem more human. In the Range he talks about the moments during a shooting. He still talks about how the opposing team and how they seem like blank faces and not really other people. The difference with this story though is that he actually shows dedication to the war itself and in the moment where he talk about how the Sergeant is right next to him is with him and is coaching him telling him to breath shows a certain level of camaraderie that is not really talked about in any other the works that we have read about. It also shows the moments of actual combat where the soldier is thinking about what he doing and really seemed to care about it while in other works it seems like they are not really there for the war.