The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willas Hall Essay -- Long Short

The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willas HallThe flirt is set in the Malayan Jungle during the Japanese advance onSingapore in 1942. Seven British soldiers have different might due tothe ranking hierarchy and they have different attitudes to onea nonher. sergeant-at-law Mitchem is the leader of the soldiers. He is aresponsible and good leader which is unor puddlented due to him stopping manyquarrels among his men and making decisions. For example, whenCorporal Johnston and sequestered Bamforth are having an argument, Mitchemstops the argument by saying Right. Pack it in. some(prenominal) of you. Next wehave Corporal Johnstone, who is second in power to sergeant-at-law Mitchem. It is obvious that Johnstone does not have the respect that Mitchemhas. This is because Bamforth has many arguments with him and does not keep company his orders efficiently. One example of a quarrel between thetwo is when Johnstone tells Bamforth to motor your pack on Bamforththen responds saying you going to inspect us, corp.? The coterminoushighest in the hierarchy is L/Corporal Macleish. He is a Scotsman andhas lawful arguments with Bamforth. In one argument Bamforth calledMacleish a Scotch Haggis. Macleish responds telling Bamforth to play along your mouth. However this only encourages Bamforth to continueby saying Aw, bewilder off it, son. Where I come from its just a name.Then we have the four Privates. Private Whitaker operates the radioand is very shy. However, at the near end of the play Whitaker shootsthe Japanese soldier because he groundbreaking on him. Private Evans is aWelshman and is just as pathetic as Whitaker. When Corporal Johnstonetells him to kill the prisoner as soon as he is captured using thebayonet of the gun, Evans steps bandaging a... ...ho weinitially disliked at the beginning of the play, turned out to be thesole form of ethics within the group of soldiers. Thus, we laterlearned to respect him and his defence of a person in a war situation who greatly undeniable it. However, how do we know whether the Japanesewill not treat the face prisoner in the same panache that we treatedtheir prisoner. How interesting that Mitchem and Johnstone held backBamforth from stopping Whitaker killing the prisoner. This means thateven after all of Bamforths efforts, they still wanted to have theprisoner killed. Eventually, the unity of Sergeant Mitchems men isaffected because they all turn against Private Bamforth and thesoldier. If there was not the presence of the prisoner then thesoldiers would operate in their usual way with Bamforth rebelling andnot displaying any changes in his character.