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The Long & The Short & The Tall
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THE LONG, THE SHORT AND THE TALL ESSAY "The Long, the Short and the Tall" is a play written by Willis Hall in 1958. They play tells the story of a patrol of volunteer soldiers in the British army, fighting in the Malayan jungle. The soldiers are of very different backgrounds but somehow come together in the patrol and unite. They are willing and ready to fight for their country at first, until they experience true wartime life when they come across a lone Japanese soldier wandering in the woods. The Japanese soldier is captured and, through no fault of his own as he can do nothing, is the patrol's eventual downfall. The author, Willis Hall, tries to show the effects of war on the average person whilst also arguing a case for the use of war, as a last resort. He also shows how inexperience in wars, by drafting in volunteers...
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