Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Is he protected or not


In the short story the drummer boy of shiloh by ray bradbury the protagonist joby had a problem he was a kid about 13-14 years old he was going to be the the drummer bouy of the battle of sahiloh this kid Joby did not have anyone and he was afraid of dieing, the more you read the stoy you here this quote :me thouyght the boy, ihave got only adrum,two sticksto beat it and no shield. At this part of the story i thought was very important because he discribes himself as alone as he really is.


the way he says that he got no shield kind of makes me think of how alonbe and sad he is and how this is affecting his feelings of wh6y he does not want to the battle, Joby is scaerd of the battle he really does not want to be in it but  he got no option because he is already their and he cant back down.


Near the middle of the story it shows how the soilders see the drummer boy anhd then the general goes up to him and while the soilders are prepering for the bettal  the next day the general sits next to thew drummer boy and took some time to talk  withg the general and the spoke and still joby kept saying that his sheild was down  when he started talking to the the general saying nothing just looking having a conversation with the eyes the general saw that toby wanted to cry but he did not say antthing  seo the general told toby let your tears out today because tomorrow you have to look like the tough one  and he said mostly you toby because you are the heart of the army...


when the general first started to talk to joby he said :"how long you been with us  joby replies three weeks sir , this shows thsat he has no expirience thats why he thinks of himself weak as the kid with out a shield .


by thee end of the story i think jobi had a shield and he knew that would protect him and his shield was confidence thats all he needed and he realized that if he had confidence then he had a  Shield.