I Quit In Honor: A Character Analysis

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I Quit in Honor I am tired and scared for me and my family, I am in Valley Forge with other men to help me fight for our country. Valley Forge is 18 miles outside of Philadelphia. It is winter of 1777 and 1778 and I am frustrated with myself because my mother is at home sick and I don’t sleep good here and I am sick same with a lot of my friends. Frustrated means a feeling or an expressing distress and annoyance especially because of inability to change or attractive something. I have payed my debt to war and I no longer have to stay I ,but I am afraid that when I get home my aging mother will already be dead but if I stay then I will probably also die because there are many deaths and illnesses going around. The first reason why I am not planning to reenlist is because there are harmful illnesses are diseases going around. “.....Nasty cooking….Vomit half of my time….” It is terrible to see other people dieing and being sick everywhere. It is also not good to have pour food for every meal like Flower and water. In December-June they started with 12,000 men then 1,800 to 2,500 men died due to …show more content…
I saw many of the men with no shoes on in the winter and I also saw many of are animals dieing. This means that it will be harder to for us to get around places faster than before when we had shoes and horses. “......Nasty clothes…...Pour food….” We don’t have any warm clothes during the winter and we also won't have the best strength if we always get fed pour food. A lot of men in are group are dieing because of pour food. When I came to the war I wanted to have good, healthy food like a lot of meat but it didn't work out that way. At night time we have to sleep on the cold ground with 12 other men and we don’t even have warm clothes and some of us have barely any “good” clothes. When you lay on the ground it is hard and cold and it is not fun to sleep in non comfy clothes