I’ve always wondered why people enjoyed reading and writing so much. I could never understand the purpose of reading and writing as a child and even a teenager. All I wanted to do was learn the basics and that was it. I personally dreaded reading and when a teacher mentioned the word “essay”, in my mind the world began to slowly crumble down. I had always wondered why I needed to write and when I would use it in my career besides to sign and write checks. Yup! I was that guy, that only seen the surface of life, with big dreams, with and inflated ego based on nothing. It wasn’t until after high school that I started to see the importance of reading and writing. It started with me keeping a journal and recording various life events and experiences. I found out that I would rather write about life than to verbally complain about it. I was later introduced to a poetry style of writing called, “spoken word” after coming to Christ. With a lot of inspiration from God and His word, I have been blessed to write a couple of spoken words of my own over the years, but I…show more content… The image of the corpse can explain the title being named, “The Silent One”. When the soldier is told that theirs a hole through the wire he basically replies that he will not crawl into death. “Do you think you might crawl through there: there’s a hole. I’m afraid not sir. Nothing but chance of death, after tearing of clothes” (2029). The soldier disobeyed a direct order that I can assume was asked in hesitation. This shows the ugly truth of war. I pictured myself in that situation and in the setting of this soldier. I imagined the bullets flying over my head and seeing the dead corpse caught in wire. I imagined being covered in mud with rain pouring down and then I hear a hesitant command. I would’ve disobeyed the order as well, even if it meant imprisonment. This is the ugly truth of
