In the dramatic poem “Danny Deever” by Rudyard Kipling, the soldiers face two duties and hardships throughout the poem. One hardship is that Files-on-Parade was good friends with Danny Deever. A duty is that the higher ranked members have to lie to the newer soldiers and not tell them the horrors that they may face. Colour-Sergeant cannot tell Files-on-Parade why the men “breathe so ‘ard” or why the “man fall down” (Kipling 9, 11). The hardship of seeing Danny Deever, Files-on-Parade’s best friend, be hung. This is tough for him because the two slept next to each other, and shared beers with each other. Files-on-Parade even says “his cot was right… I’ve drunk his beer a score of times” (Kipling 17,19). Although it is not said, it can be assumed
