Brain Twister

When I first read the play “Black Watch," I couldn't even come up with any ideas to write a blog. My mind became blank. All the ideas I thought would have became a blur. I was behind me, in my past. The play was one of the hardest I ever read. When I began to read it, I thought to myself, "not another war story." Then I realized that it was not only another war story, but one that I didn't understand at all.

As I began reading, it jumped out at me that reading this play will take a lot of skills. Each word that I had no idea of what it was, I just made it up according to the structure of the sentence. It gave me a better idea of what I was reading.

I realized why the professor recommended that we attend the play. In comparison with "Jarhead" and "Shooting War" it consisted of similar ideas. In "Jarhead" everything was given an explanation. I understood what the term "fieldfuck" was. Towards the ending of "Jarhead" I had to read out loud in order to stay interested, but from the beginning to the end of "Black Watch" I was reading out loud. It was not to stay interested, but to get a better understanding.