Bryan Turner
(Review by Pablo Barroca Roldán)
“I was a soldier” by Bryan Turner tells the story of two enemy soldiers who started to socialize in a strange way during war. As every soldier has duties to obey during the war, these two protagonists won´t be the exception. In consequence, the resulting relationship among them will lead this fiction to an unexpected ending.
Turner´s book presents different topics such as friendship, death, duty, and human contradiction among others. The incorporation of all these topics, by the author, is very essential since students can face the mentioned topics in nowadays society.
Even though Turner´s story does not have any illustrations, it contains simple expressions and vocabulary that might help the reader or listener to follow the story without any problem.
“I was a soldier” is an interesting short story that allows young adult to reflect upon the importance of war, duty, death, friendship and human contradiction. This book is highly recommended to be used with adolescents at secondary schools.
Dear Pablo, in your review you used the words war and duty several times. Perhaps you should use synonyms next time.
ReplyDeletePaul ;at first reading I noticed that the writing did not belonged to any of the girls I know .Why? because the terms you used have some belicosity to me... perhaps I have to get use to a male point of view . I suggest in the second paragraph first line human contradictions instead of human contradiction Lidia
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