Glory Road
So far in this novel, the only social issue that has been
shown is to deal with war. The reason why I think this is the social issue is
because the main character receives a letter stating that he has to join the
army and fight for his country. This is sort of like the conscription crisis
that happened during World War 1. The
conscription crisis is about how able-bodied men, from the age of 18 to 45 had
to join the army when their country was at war. The main character ends up
getting into the army working as a soldier instead of the job that he wanted
which was the job of which the person only had to type up letters and such,
which meant he didn’t have to actually fight in the war but was still in the
army.
This link is to a website that talks about the conscription
crisis, who it affected and why it was created. The conscription crisis was a
law that had forced able-bodied men around the age of 18-45 to HAVE to join the
army; this was done to get more soldiers since they had lost so many soldiers
in battle. This caused many people to start riots, destroy stores and streets.
In the novel it does not mention the main character being enraged and joining
the riots, rather it just talks about him going and joining the war, even
though he has a strong belief against war in general. When the main character didn’t
put up a fight of joining the army, you could infer that he had no choice but
to do as the letter told him to.
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