Author: Master Sergeant Mark Baker
Type of Literature: Cartoons
Quote: "Yo? AGHA, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT PHRASE YOU TAUGHT ME FOR 'GOOD AFTERNOON'."
I read a set of four comics by Master Sergent Mark Baker. These cartoons follow a PVT. while he writes home, is speaking with the people of the country he is in and in Washington. The last comic is about a 1SG who gets a call that ends abruptly because of a comment he says. My quote is from the second comic and is Murphy's reaction to being slaps on multiple occasions because of a phrase that someone from the country he is in had taught him.
My reaction was that it was funny how he could make a joke out of everyday things that they had to go through.
My connection to our unit is that you don't know who you can trust and who you can't in war which is deminstrated in the book as that they aren't sure who the enemy is and in the comic where he was being slapped because of what the man had told him to say.
5 comments:
Great connection, Casey! I am assuming that most people who go through war have the same issue with trust. Why was the phrase that was being said so bad to say, and why was he slapped for it?
It didn't tell the reader what he was actually saying when he meant good afternoon which is part of the reason i find it so funny.
Oh, I get it now! That is ironic because it was trying to be polite, but he got smacked instead! haha
That is part of the reason that that entry caught my eye. I didn't feel like being brought down that day by reading something sad.
It is good that he can still make a joke while in the war. It would be hard to have such a good attitute in that situation.
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