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Discuss the ways in which Willis Hall conveys the effects of war in ‘The long and the short and the tall.’
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Discuss the ways in which Willis Hall conveys the effects of war in 'The long and the short and the tall.' Willis Hall was born in Leeds in 1929 and he grew up there learning about the North Country working class life. He first wrote the play 'The long and the short and the tall' in 1952 it was his third play that he released, before he wrote plays he wrote fro newspapers/magazines etc. 'The Long and the Short and the Tall' was then published in London in 1953. He wrote his plays to slowly reveal emotions and characteristics of all of the characters that he wrote about. Willis Hall based this play on a true event, the British invasion on Japan. This play is about seven men in the army on a routine patrol in the forest on a Japanese island, most of these men have no experience in war...
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