Vivid Images Of Soldiers In Beware Of The Dog

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In the story, Beware of the Dog, the author paints an idea of what some soldiers in World War 2 dealt when they were captured. The story paints a vivid image of how soldiers are gravely injured. The main character, Peter, is a soldier for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and he had his right leg shot off at the knee, while he was still flying a Spitfire. He has to get out of his airplane so he doesn’t crash. While he is falling out of the plane, he is lapsing in and out of consciousness he parachutes to safety or so he thinks. He wakes up in a room and his leg is bandaged up. After some controversial events that take place in his ‘hospital in Brighton’, like when the nurse says that the water is hard as nails but in Brighton, Peter remembers

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