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1. What have you have learned about the Blitz? You MAY NOT cut and paste, but you can look this up.
2. What have you discovered about war from the lectures of the veterans?
3. How have you related to the theme of the play or the situation?
4. How can you compare the play's situation to what is going on in the world today?
I think the content of this play can apply to what’s happening in the middle east today. We can use the play as a tribute to our past veterans and those who experience these situations every day!
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ReplyDeleteAs I am about to go to college, I will be leaving my family and friends and going to a foreign place where I know no one. I think that relates to the men(Frank) who do the same when they leave for war. Also just as Judith, I must stand up for what I believe right no matter the consequences. I think we can relate to a lot of specific situations in the play. Whether dealing with the loss of someone or feeling obliged to do something because it is the status quo.
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ReplyDeleteI have learned a lot from the veterans we have heard from. For example, I have always wondered how the citizens reacted to the soldiers and how they treated them. This was a complete shock to me when I heard that some of them were very welcoming and others were frightened. I also was very intrigued by all the stories they told about surviving the war and how they cope with it now. The veterans taught all of us that war is a hard place to live in and being a part of war will follow you for the rest of your life. This really helped the actors connect with their characters and war. They saw the real life struggles that the veterans and their families went through. It is really gonna help our play be amazing now knowing the connections with war.
i have learned so much from the veterans. i knew war was hard and rough but they really helped me put things into perspective. the stories they told and the endurance they had was incredible. i thought how they wrote notes/pictures to loved ones was very interesting. how many missions and how alert they had to be is crazy. how valuable kool aid was and the stories of the lake were very enjoyable. they moved my eyes to how violent and awful war was, but also how selfless you had to be.
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ReplyDeleteThere are many possible themes in this play, and I believe that one of them is women coming together to get through something traumatic. Personally in my family, we are all girls, besides my dad. Recently we had a major loss when someone in my family passed away, instead of it pushing us apart it brought us together. Some took it harder than others, but we all came together to help eachother in different ways. Some of us were the comforters and others were the mourners. This is also a little off topic, but I reccomend that anyone who loses a loved one in the play should listen to "Quiet Up Town" from the Hamilton Soundtrack. It really makes you feel for those who lose people in the war.
i learned so much from all the veterans coming to talk to us. hearing the veterans speak about the amount of selflessness that went into the fight was crazy. listening to their stories about the culture of the people around them and how the war affected them can be extremely helpful to all characters. hearing about what was going through their brain when leaving and fighting can be very beneficial to the soldiers and hearing how the wars affected their family and civilians can be helpful to the wives, children, mothers, significant others, and regular people. i learned how the war can affect you after it’s over or even before it’s started. they gave me lots of insight into the reality of war. the violence but also the small times of fun and relationships they made. as tough as war is they gave us a look into why people go to war. the lessons they learned and the friendships they made were incredible. fighting for your country seems like a very humbling and amazing experience.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the veterans I learned that wars hurt everyone. It wasn’t easier for the people back home. People were left behind, left in the dark about their loved ones whereabouts, and eventually left without family members. On the other end of the spectrum, the soldiers suffered greatly too. Not only was the experience of war sad, but it was also traumatic. Maybe I’m just naive, but I was blind to all the going-ons of war and I really do believe that their stories helped give me an insight to the true detestation that befell their lives. My character Sheila is less attached to the other characters and has no one else to provide for, but I truly believe that she wants to help her country. Being a woman nearly cripples her ability to help serve. I can’t imagibe being in that situation but I hope that knowing what went on in the war will help me deliver raw emotion on stage through my character and really feel Sheila’s pain of being (almost) useless at home.
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ReplyDeleteWhat I’ve discovered about the war from the lectures from the veterans is that when they were going to war they didn’t know if they were coming back. The way I see it is they did have to abandon all hope to become a good soldier. As my character being Soldier 2, I feel he didn’t abandon his hope. He was still trying to find a way to find something to come back to after the war. I feel this is what led him to his demise just like Frank. Don’t make promises you can’t keep. Love and sexual attraction was a big part of why my character was careless in his decisions during the war. I do realize he felt it would be his last time, but I would be doing anything and everything I could to survive, even if that meant abandoning all of my hope. I feel the women were the more affected during this time than the men. I do realize the men were basically going to die, but think of all the women and children that were left to fight for themselves and try and survive themselves. What was the point in them living if they lost the ones they truly cared about? They too had to abandon their hope to move on from their tragedies. I feel we all need to truly come into connections of losing someone we care about, and contribute that pain and emotion in the play.
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ReplyDelete"Look at your city Judith, it's burning. What's going to happen if you stand up and say 'this won't do'?" This is one of my favorite quotes from our play because I believe it holds great truths that still ring out today. The powerful line "it's burning" never ceases to run through my mind as I look at the world around us. Although Joan may have meant this literally because of the fires caused by the bombs, I believe she also means it figuratively. Life as they know it was being destroyed all around them as war and hostility ripped through the world. When we look at our world today, it's hard to see much of a difference. Of coarse, we're not in the middle of a raging war with bombs falling all around us, but our world is still "burning." We hear countless stories of destruction, poverty, abuse, neglect, injustice, and more throughout this world. We see evil as it seeps into the souls of men and women, driving them to do wicked deeds that only destroy our world farther. World War 2 may have ended years ago, but our world is still broken. However, I don't believe it has to always be this way. I love the second part of the quote which says, "what's going to happen if you stand up and say 'this won't do'?" What would happen if we stood up against the cruelty? We honestly don't know, because we're to afraid to take that leap. But for all we know, we could be the beginning of a healing to this world. We'll never be sure how our actions are going to effect the world around us, but we have to be brave enough to try and help it in anyway we can.
#2 I have learned many things from the veterans that came to speak to us. I have never been able to picture what it would be like in the war, I always thought that it was like the movies. I have learned that it is much worse and it impacts a person for the rest of their life. I specifically remember of the veterans saying, “It’s like being in a horrible car wreck every single day.” I can’t fathom how they wake up every morning, knowing that they might not make it back alive. The veterans that came and spoke to us have changed my perspective on the war that they went through.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that I have learned from the war veterans is how much the war impacts your life. Every day they are reminded of their service in the war and how impacted their family and friends. The war is with you forever and is truly a terrifying thing to go through. The war also impacts your mentality every day. And I think we could put that in our characters by showing pain and suffering. We need to show in our play how our fear evolved throughout the bombings, and how crazy and unexpected they are.
ReplyDeleteI've learned so much from the veterans that have stopped by and talked to us. It really opened my eyes and made me realize that war is so much worse than anyone can imagine unless you are apart of it. We all know that it's bad, but we can't even realize what all of our veterans went through in order to protect our freedoms. It really shows how much we need to give back to them and really treat them in a way that can somewhat do what they did justice. This play is a great opportunity for everyone to let these veterans relive what they have gone through and truly realize what it was all for. Do whatever you can do to make them thankful for their experiences while serving our country.
ReplyDeleteI have learned a lot from the veterans that we have gotten the opportunity to listen to. The thing that I stuck out the most to me was one of the veterans said that "losing hope made me a good soldier." When he said that I was really taken aback. How could losing hope make you better?? But when he explained that when he lost hope, and lived for just what was right in front of him, such as the book he was reading, or the soup they made, he became a better soldier... It is sad that that is the reality of the lives that the soldiers have to live.
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ReplyDeleteListening to the veterans speak really touched me. Hearing each one of their individual stories gave me different insights to the play and different ways to play my character. Each year I study and try to find what my characters base is, what i need to be feeling throughout the entire play. Hearing personal real life stories have me that and it’s something other schools aren’t so fortunate to get. I have learned how hard war was, i had always known it was difficult but really listening to the individual stories gave me another level of understanding. The time of war and just being around it was hard, times were tough and women had to step up in positions they didn’t normally take. I now feel a personal connection to my character that i had hoped would come, I can’t wait for it to grow stronger as the year progresses!!
Question 4: The first thing I can relate to the play is war. Right now many soldiers are deployed right now overseas and in battle. The second thing is terrorist attacks. With every terrorist attack happening we can almost feel the fear the people in the play had to go through every day.
ReplyDeletewhat i have learned about war from the veteran is that it was scary. they went through a lot, but they would do it again. They made friends that they would keep for a long time. The men liked the adrenaline and would go back again if they could.
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ReplyDeleteI learned so much about war from the veterans. Something that stuck with me was “losing hope made me a better solider”. That was hard for me to believe because it was contradictory to everything I knew. I couldn’t see how losing all hope could actually make you better at anything. But when he explained it, it made sense: Living just for what you see and are experiencing in the moment. It’s sad that that’s their lives, that’s their realities.
from talking to the veterans i’ve learned that we never will understand what they really experienced. when kris told us about the passage where the guys arm was shoved back into the socket and the veteran told us he edited out the gory stuff, it made me think about how things were so much worse than we imagine them. war is war and that is scary!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat I have discovered about war is that it’s a very hard time for the veteran and their families
ReplyDeleteI compare the our play to our situation with North Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. If we got into a war with North Korea it would be similar to the blitz because of the bombs that they are threatening to use and the bongs that were used in world war 2. Iraq and Saudi Arabia use and drop bombs in innocent civilians to weaken their enemies just like germany did in World War 2.
ReplyDelete#4 We have lots of problems in the world today but I feel as if the Middle East is like the blitz a war zone of cities full of innocent people who do not want war but are stuck in the middle of the battle with no choice. The bombs falling in the citizens who just want peace but can't receive it because of the war just like today in Syria and other middle eastern countries today that compare to the European countries of the 1940s who suffered WW2.
ReplyDeleteThe theme of the the play is so relatable to the world today. War threatens many parts of the world yet they just continue on. We lose people, we say goodbye, but we just keep going. Judith represents the change and revolution that we hope will change things.
ReplyDeleteThrough the lectures of veterans, I have learned that war is far different from I had imagined. War is so much more intense that I had ever thought. Without these lectures, we would not be able to portray the emotions of war as they truly should be. The emotions that Mr. Caisley wants us to bring to the stage are so much realer now that we have heard the first-hand accounts of people who have lived through war.
ReplyDeletei learned so much from the veterans that came to speak to us, it really showed me that war is much worse than i thought. Do great this year, and get past regionals!
ReplyDeleteI knew that war was a hard thing to go through, but I never understood the extent of it. I learned how unclean, and how hard life was in harsh places like Vietnam.
ReplyDeleteI learned that war is dark. I knew it was but not to the extent that the vets explained it. It’s so dark that you have to lose hope just to survive. That is true darkness.
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