Blackwatch

Well indeed this was the hardest play i have ever read; the wording was difficult to comprehend throughout the play. Like Jarhead, although a memoir and not a novel/play, the similarities between the education of the soldiers are striking in that these are young men who were just out of high school with hardly any other education whatsoever. the young men in Black Watch are just like the young men in Jarhead, filthy, in terms of language. They are also bored; they spent most of the days talking about and relieving sexual tension. Unlike Jarhead, where the letters were sent to them from the many Marine girls, those sent to the soldiers in Blackwatchare more up beat, with messages of hope. The one's in Jarhead were purely sexual, nothing of substance really, just a little pick me up to the young men, who ultimately wanted to just place these young women on the wall or trade pictures of them with each other. Again in this novel the soldiers actually saw action, combat, actual combat. here too the men, although facing death, the only other common thread that is showed is the filthy language, and the excess of sexual references.

Shooting War

• Shooting war was the first graphic novel that i had the pleasure of reading, although most of the books was full with at times too much graphic images i felt that this was all in all a wonderful creative piece of work. The main character Jimmy was at times irritating, as well as compelling in is efforts to show the world what was wrong with it. With his first chance to be in the line-light when the building he lived him getting total, making him an instant celebrity for a news station he felt was part of the problem. Although he despise mass media he eventually took a job for the same people he felt was the problem. Jimmy in turn became the thing he despise the man that work for corporate America the big business the mass media and at some point he became the thing he disliked the most.

As for the violent images well there was a multitude, like the part where they cut off the man's head and the part where the women were blown to pieces.
The portrayal of American soldier was indeed something different, the American soldiers were seen as the enemy. What's fascinating to me was the soldiers in the masks, the big cross, something i felt was somewhat sacrilegious. In Jarhead, although the young soldiers were crude and at times violent, eg with a member of swofford team desecrated a courps for several days the image of the soldiers was not so negative. Then again I must remember that Jarhead was a memoir and not a novel.

Americans in this novel were portrayed as bullies, killers with no conscious the, evil entity that invaded a poor land killing the innocent occupants that occupied the space. Although the author political views is quiet apparent throughout the novel all in all i found it alright. the religious aspect of the novel i did indeed found interested in that take the part when the bullet enter the terrorist hand and he placed is hand up like Jesus did, well that was very profound, along with the cross, this was good