Journey's End Essay
The sound of guns firing, screaming men, bombs going off and the casual side conversations in the audience is how Journey's End went. On October 8th I went to go watch the last show run of the play Journey's End directed by Gordon Reinhart and written by R.C. Sherriff at the Danny Peterson theatre. In Journey's End, there are eleven characters: Captain Hardy, Stanhope, Lieutenant Osborne, Private Mason, Lance corporal "Bert" Broughton, 2nd Lieutenant Raleigh, Trotter, Hibbert, Company Sergeant–Major, the colonel and a German soldier. As I walked into the Morrison center bought my ticket from the box office, I went straight to the back and headed towards the doors of the Danny Peterson theatre. Once I arrived at the doors I noticed the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Osborne says to Hardy, "He's one of the best company commanders we've got." As captain Hardy leaves a new soldier arrives whose name is Raleigh. Osborne greets Raleigh then proceeds to tell about the rest of the crew he'll be working with these next few days. As Osborne is listing off all the members he gets to mention captain Stanhope, Raleigh says, "I know its frightful good luck". At this point, I'm caught wondering why would Raleigh say that. Raleigh then goes on to tell Osborne that he knows Dennis (Stanhope) from back home and that he actually requested to be in the same company as Stanhope. Stanhope then finds out that Raleigh is in his company and isn't too pleased that he is. Stanhope goes on to tell Osborne that he thinks Raleigh is there just to spy on him and report back to his sister. Throughout the play, I start to feel bad for Raleigh just because of the way Stanhope treats him. Then again Stanhope isn't one of the nicest guys.
It is now Tuesday morning; Trotter is in heaven with the smells of beacon that Mason has cooked for them for breakfast. Trotter brings up how he enjoys the springtime, throughout the play most of the time he's having a conversation of varies things...mainly because he doesn't really like to talk about the war. I thought it was kind of sad. Captain Stanhope lets his men know that the wire around the trenches needs to be fixed he
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