The Fighting Ground

I realized that Jonathan is growing up and starting to understand what war is all about. When the narrator stated, “So did Jonathan. But he saw that once again the men had grown uneasy. In the face of the man who had last spoken, he thought he recognized the same look his father had had when he parted: fear.” This shows that yet again that Jonathan doesn’t know much about war because all he has been told is that soldiers are brave men so he expected the men he was with to be brave during the whole journey. This goes with the theme of Growing up because Jonathan is growing up and realizing that war is not easy and that every one gets scared. Jonathan is growing up and realizing that war is not good all the time