Begin RESEARCH on your chosen nationalism topic. WRITE a brief blog post in which you introduce your character, referencing at least TWO HISTORICAL SOURCES.
Meet Luka Schneider. Luka is a soldier on the German lines who got drafted from his small home in the town, Monkowarsk. Luka is a kind person who wants peace and dislikes violence. He never wanted to go to the war and finds it terrible that all the men around him enjoy killing the other men on the battlefield. Luka is one of the many men on the front lines who are constantly risking their lives to fight for their country. He will be writing in his diary/ journal about what has happened since his last entry. There might be a time spand of days or weeks where he doesn't write anything in his journal because he doesn't have time and is too busy worrying about staying alive than writing about his life. Over time, seeing men die from numerous shots, poison gas, disease, and other gruesome ways, his perspective of the enemy and war change with the different experiences he will encounter. Nationalism plays a role in Luka's life during the war when he has to make life-saving decisions and when he has to change his attitude of the war to survive on the battlefield.
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa042699.htm
http://www.firstworldwar.com/origins/causes.htm
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/surname/a/german_surnames.htm
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It would be interesting to explore how the war changed him after the fact. Living in war when all he wants is peace must be quite a struggle. Hoepfully by the end, love of his country will allow him to confront and defeat the part of himself that shies from doing what he must. Good luck to you both!
ReplyDeleteThis seems like it has real potential and the ideas you have here are very interesting to think about like how your character has to go through so much with seeing numerous men die to him being right on the front lines, great ideas hope he survives it all.
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