"When I Was a Soldier" blog #2

[pages 28-43]
SUMMARY
Varlerie has a job at the "Extrapharm". She is underpaid upon her hourly rate. As she earns little money for 120 hours per mouth. She kept explaining the results of the 'baccalaureat'. Which is her town's army name. If you found your Mr. Perfect, what's the point of meeting him if you end up having to fight in the war? She begins to question upon her future. Her questions leads to her hoping that the future would be different from the present. Jean-David was the love of her life, until he moved to Jerusalem and never called her. He waited for the day that she had to do an important writen exam at school. He had told her that he met a girl in Jerusalem and he was sorry. Then, after they had said their 'good-byes', she ran to her two best friends, Rahel and Yulia, and as they held her, she let out her cries of her breaking heart.

QUOTE
"- I feel like telling them to f***  off with their words which means nothing to me, which don't get to me, i feel more and more grumpy, unhappy and angry, without really knowing why."

REACTION
The change of thoughts tells the reader how her mood changes. At first, she was excited to be faithful for her town and excited to become a soldier. However, as the days passed and the day she becomes a soldier is coming in her reach, she doesn't feel excited or happy anymore. Varlerie becomes more moody, and even builds up fear. Being a soldier isn't fun and games. It is a serious situation that you can never by-pass. She's starting to realize that she would have to leave her home and be in a strange new place. Where unexpected things waits for her.