{"id":1122,"date":"2025-10-17T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:54:41","slug":"jesss-reading-questions-for-oct-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Jess’s Reading Questions for Oct. 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. In “The Beach,” we read a snapshot of how a young couple is spending their time outside the war. Both of them try to focus their attention on the immediate surrounding environment of the beach\/the casino to avoid thinking about how their relationship is forever altered and quite possibly doomed because the war has left the young man disabled. Would you classify their attempts at distraction as a form of trauma response, such as escapism? Or are they simply enjoying their time away from the war? How do their actions resemble those of Catherine and Frederic? Do you feel more sympathy for this couple than for Catherine and Frederic? If so, what makes them different?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. “Moonlight” provides some vastly different descriptions of a nighttime war experience than we have read thus far. In particular, the sounds and presence of gunfire and war are described as comforting to the narrator, like a lullaby. Contrastingly, she is afraid of seemingly normal occurrences such as the moonlight and freshly mown hay. There is also quite a bit of back and forth about lies and truth. Lies are being whispered to her from the earth outside, while the truth rings out from the wounded inside. Do you think it is possible that the war can have a comforting or perhaps grounding presence? What is the significance of the narrator being afraid of natural elements such as the moon and grass, whilst being comforted by the horror of a manmade war? What are the lies she references? Finally, what do you think Borden wants us to take away from this story about living through the war as a nurse? <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. “Enfant de Malheur” is arguably one of the most violent passages about the war we’ve read in this class, despite there being no fighting amongst soldiers. The dying boy is described as young and beautiful yet vile and demonic. He was a forced soldier who fought for his own freedom, not his country. What does Borden’s description of the suffering of this “rotten child” compared to the suffering of older soldiers convey about her ideas of heroism? At the end of this story, Guerin is said to have saved the boy, and he dies peacefully. Do you believe he is truly saved? What does it mean for the boy to be saved in this context? Does it even matter if he is? <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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