Journey's End/World War 1

Journey's End is a play written by R.C. Sherriff and it's set on World War one. The message that the author tries to send is that not always your hero or rolemodel is the best person in all aspects and doesn's always make the right decisions throughout life.

The whole story is performed on a dugout in the trenches of the british army infantry company, and in real life people did lived in trenches and they turned to go into no mans land to attack the enemy and try to conquer other trenches and so on. Trenches were a really stupid thing because to conquer the enemy trench you had to pass through no mans land and you were totally exposed to the enemies machine guns and rifles so you were basically sent to your own death.

World War 1 (1914 - 1918) was caused because basically a serbian guy killed Franz Ferdinand and then Hungary declared war to Serbia and then Russia united with Serbia to fight and Germany united with Hungary. Later, the U.K. and France made an alliance with Russia and Serbia. Then the U.S. united with Russia and friends and they won the war.

The things that alter and affect the situation and the environment is the entrance and exit of different characters with different events that have happened to them.

Here are a list of the characters:

Colonel
Captain Hardy
Captain Stanhope
Second Lieutenant Hibbert
Second Lieutenant Trotter
Second Lieutenant Raleigh
Lieut. Osborne
Sergeant Major
Private Mason
German Soldier

Here are some links for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey's_End
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I