BR1-09: Why?

““I'm going to think about you every day,”says Sara”

Alex is a nineteen-year old man who is in the army, and he had to go to Glossia which is in conflict. He went to the country left his girlfriend, Sara. He is not sure why people have to fight. After arrived the country, he joined a military unit. Then he and his team went to a city to patrol.

While they patrol, two men and a woman gets into a house in the town. Their purpose was to shoot the unit, so they used the house. There were a mother, and 2 children living in the house. The assailants took a doll which children had, and they ordered children to go out and play in the street with the doll, and also, when soldiers come, go run away.

The unit that Alex joins was approaching the street, and they found the children. Then they ran away when they saw the militants. There was a doll left on the street, and Alex was going to pick it up. A sergeant of the unit was about to stop him, but it was too late, Alex died of shooting from the attackers. The team killed one attacker, but rest of them were flee.

When I finished the book, I thought it was too abruptly ending. Because if it is usual, it must be the protagonist, Alex was actually alive and go back to his country, and live his girlfriend together. However, he is completely dead. I'd think twice about this, I feel more reality of the actual war than happy ending.

Prowse Phillip. (2008). Why?. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

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