Survivor's Blog: Two Friends

Question 1: How does the character search for solace, purpose, and/or redemption in this story?

In this story the characters search for solace and purpose by going fishing. The main characters, Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage share a common intrest in fishing. When they went fishing they were at a time of peace and happyness. They would go out to a lake and fish together but that was the only time they were together. When the war broke out they had to stop going to the lake to fish, untill one day they saw eachother on the street and desided to go get a drink at a bar. When they were there they had gotten a little drunk and desided to go to the lake even though it was very dangerous because they might get captured by the enemy army. When they get there they fish for a little and then get captured. The people that had captured them thought that they were spies so they tried to get the password so they could send their spies into friendly territory. When they were unable to tell them the password they were killed. The purpose of this was to show that in time of war, many people's places or times of peace and happyness can be taken away very easily. These two characters were just going to have a good time, but they ended up being killed.

Question 2: How does the character's experience reflect the historical period in which his/her story is told?

The Characters' expriences reflect the historical period in which the story is told because this was happening during a time of war. This story would be any other story if it did not have the war in it. The war is what gets out the true message of this story, the message of war is never good. War is never good because many people lose their lives and times of happyness dude to war, even by being some one who has done nothing wrong and just is in the wrong place at the wrong time like what happen to Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage, the main characters in the story. If there was no war Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage would have not have been killed by the enemy army, due to a mistaken identity as a spy, and would have never have stopped going to the lake where they found their place of peace and happyness that they could enjoy all they wanted.

Question 3: How does the character's experience in the story symboloize the theme of survival and the human spirit?

The characters' experience in the story symboloizes the theme of survival and the human spirit becuase of what they had gone threw just to be happy. Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage had gone threw some of the most dangerous things that they could ever come opon and they still continued, it may had been that they were drunk, but they were still going to be happy. They were willing to risk their lives to be happy no matter what the concequece. The concequence they suffered was the worst possible, death, just to become happy in the time of war. The theme of survival and the human spirit in this story was to be happy no matter what and they had gone on a long journey to just be happy and over came many obsticals. Even though they did not end up finaly being happy but they had been really happy and had a great day of fishing.