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.