Raleigh journeys end
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 19-05-13 14:26
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- Raleigh
- a boy with everything to live for
- his death emphasis's the irony of death
- fated to die immediately
- raleigh embodies the young men who died in their 100's of 1000's in the great war
- is killed in the first few minutes of battle without ever really living
- his death emphasis's the irony of death
- innocent and ignorant
- 'it seemed frightfully quiet'
- young
- 'a boyish voice' pg 9
- 'well 'e's only a lad' pg 85
- fit
- 'a well- built, healthy - looking boy of about 18'
- ' e's got pluck. strong lad too' pg 85
- officer and 2nd lieutenant
- naive
- ' and next day i was told i was coming to this battalion. funny, wasn't it'
- ' (excitedly) sh told be about the raid'
- nervously enthusiastic
- 'its most frightfully exiting'
- ironic
- 'how topping if we both get the M.C
- ' my officers are here to be respected not laughed at'
- middle class
- ' i heard rifle firing like the range at Bisley'
- likeable
- ' e's a nice young feller' pg 63
- traumatised by the raid
- ' walking as though he were asleep'
- now understands the horror of war
- no longer views war as a great adventure
- ' i reckon that raid shook 'im up more'n we thought'
- ' walking as though he were asleep'
- brave
- ' i fell rotten lying here- everybody else-up-there'
- James (Jimmy) raleigh
- Osborne was right
- ' i hope we're lucky and get a youngster straight from school. they're the kind that do the best
- hero worship
- sh has always taken care of him and he hopes this will continue at the front
- he wants to follow in sh foot steps
- a boy with everything to live for
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