Blog Post #6 06/10/15
Our first history assignment was just handed to us and I thought I might make it a little more interesting. Well, interesting in my eyes, that is.
The unit that we're currently working on is WWI, specific focus on trench warfare. The concept our teacher wants us to grasp onto is that trench-life was horrid. Disease, boredom, fear, trauma; so many horrible things took away millions of lives in the first world war. The assignment given to us was to write a letter home in the perspective of a solider or a nurse in the trenches. After doing a lot of thinking, I came up with an idea to make this a bit more fun for me, but also a whole lot harder. I decided that the solider I will write about will be a schizophrenic with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) who is writing back home to a family member who does not exist.
Sounds complicated, I know. The way that I've planned things out so far is that he will not be able to tell whether people are dying or not and he will be in constant panic because of it. The germans (the enemy. We're writing as Canadian soldiers.) will be seen as a giant monster rather than people. He will think that no man's land is the monster's land, and when a soldier goes "over the top" to go across no man's land that they are running into the monster's mouth. The nurses will be the angels, and because this was the first war where they used poisonous gas and we have to be historically accurate, he will see the gas as somewhat magical potion that causes the soldiers to start "laughing" hysterically (coughing).
I'm excited to see how this letter turns out and I might post it here on my blog so you can take a look at it. It's time to put my interest in psychology to work.
Yours truly,
Kat.N
The unit that we're currently working on is WWI, specific focus on trench warfare. The concept our teacher wants us to grasp onto is that trench-life was horrid. Disease, boredom, fear, trauma; so many horrible things took away millions of lives in the first world war. The assignment given to us was to write a letter home in the perspective of a solider or a nurse in the trenches. After doing a lot of thinking, I came up with an idea to make this a bit more fun for me, but also a whole lot harder. I decided that the solider I will write about will be a schizophrenic with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) who is writing back home to a family member who does not exist.
Sounds complicated, I know. The way that I've planned things out so far is that he will not be able to tell whether people are dying or not and he will be in constant panic because of it. The germans (the enemy. We're writing as Canadian soldiers.) will be seen as a giant monster rather than people. He will think that no man's land is the monster's land, and when a soldier goes "over the top" to go across no man's land that they are running into the monster's mouth. The nurses will be the angels, and because this was the first war where they used poisonous gas and we have to be historically accurate, he will see the gas as somewhat magical potion that causes the soldiers to start "laughing" hysterically (coughing).
I'm excited to see how this letter turns out and I might post it here on my blog so you can take a look at it. It's time to put my interest in psychology to work.
Yours truly,
Kat.N