Children of the civil war

Children of the civil war

1. One unique thing about the home front letters is that they didn’t really know what was going on, they only knew that they had to hide. Whit a constant fear of being hit by shells, there was no other option than hiding in cellars all day long. It was nearly impossible to live a normal life, and that’s the situation for the frontline children to. They lived in a constant threat by the enemy just like those at home. But in the beginning they had a kind of glorifying expectations whit fighting for their country, they didn’t understood what they were facing. At Christmas time soldiers
2. The majority of the stories which contains information about the weapons make you realise that they must have been pretty old. Emma Leconte also writes “Hurrah! Old Abe has been assassinated!” about Abraham Lincoln and he was president during the war.
3. One document really made an impact on me, document C (front line). I can just imagine the sorrow that letter brings with it. The fact of being informed about ones son’s death by a letter must be horrible. It must have been inconceivably to bee informed that way.

4. I’ve learned and got an better understanding of which affect the war had to the children. For example, in order to get food, people at home had to rob food stores and other kinds of markets for necessary things to be able to survive, and that’s just so hard to imagine when you have been raised in a country like peaceful Sweden. But I have also learned to read a text, trying to find out different kind of things like, who wrote the text and why did he/she wrote it? I’ve simply learned how to read a text with critical eyes.