Short story on “The Charge of the Light Brigade” poem
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... Short story on "The Charge of the Light Brigade" poem What Miss Willby wants? * Lots of description (that fits in with the mood) * Colour of the land scape * Characters feelings * Time * Description /Feelings * Small Dialogue * Sense of contrast (light/ dark, sound/ silence, black/ white) "Oh my God, what was I doing?" It was the day before the daunting campaign; the grey storm clouds cast a dark shadow over our heads as we took shelter in the tents. I was sharing a tent with my friend James. I have known him for 5 years now and I had never seen such fear on his face as I saw then. My name is Sam Jones; I was one of six hundred men who were camping out a league away from "Death Valley". We had been told by our senior officer to take a Russian gun's outpost half a














