Refresh, Refresh
“Refresh, Refresh” is a short story from 2006. The Author, who is Benjamin Percy, published his story in The Paris Review.
The narrator is Josh, who is an omniscient first person.
The text takes place in the unincorporated area Crow in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is like a normal city, but apart from The 2nd Battalion.
A lot of the men in the town work as reservists, as part-time soldiers. During the story all the marine reservists shipped off to Iraq. Another part of the men in the town is the old ones. These men had paid their dues and now they spend their time drinking coffee and talk about the weather. There are also men like Dave Lightener. Dave Lightener is a recruitment officer, who has to inform the families deceased. He has sex with the wives and girlfriends of late soldiers.
Josh and Gordon are best friends and their fathers are soldiers, as most men in Crow. Since the fathers deployed to Iraq the boys has changed completely. Their fights with the gold-colored boxing gloves are a symbol of the fight for them to become like their fathers. Every day when the school let out they train in Josh’s Backyard to make each other tougher. Their reason to fight is that they want to have revenge on Seth Johnson, who is the guy how bullies them. After reading more into the novel I realize that there is a deeper reason. The reason is that they want to earn the same strength as their fathers.
Josh’s father is short and squat. He has a little belly, broad shoulders, brown eyes, gray moustache and wore a John Deere cap. He laughs a lot and Josh thinks that he spents too much time with his friends. Josh is a child of divorced parents. His mother lives in Boise with a triathlete.
When Josh’s father gets deployed he mails Josh whenever he can, but when the time passes he writes infrequently.
(P. 34, ll. 29 – 32) “We could only cross our finders and wish on stars and hit refresh, refresh, refresh, hoping that they would return to us, praying that they
The narrator is Josh, who is an omniscient first person.
The text takes place in the unincorporated area Crow in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is like a normal city, but apart from The 2nd Battalion.
A lot of the men in the town work as reservists, as part-time soldiers. During the story all the marine reservists shipped off to Iraq. Another part of the men in the town is the old ones. These men had paid their dues and now they spend their time drinking coffee and talk about the weather. There are also men like Dave Lightener. Dave Lightener is a recruitment officer, who has to inform the families deceased. He has sex with the wives and girlfriends of late soldiers.
Josh and Gordon are best friends and their fathers are soldiers, as most men in Crow. Since the fathers deployed to Iraq the boys has changed completely. Their fights with the gold-colored boxing gloves are a symbol of the fight for them to become like their fathers. Every day when the school let out they train in Josh’s Backyard to make each other tougher. Their reason to fight is that they want to have revenge on Seth Johnson, who is the guy how bullies them. After reading more into the novel I realize that there is a deeper reason. The reason is that they want to earn the same strength as their fathers.
Josh’s father is short and squat. He has a little belly, broad shoulders, brown eyes, gray moustache and wore a John Deere cap. He laughs a lot and Josh thinks that he spents too much time with his friends. Josh is a child of divorced parents. His mother lives in Boise with a triathlete.
When Josh’s father gets deployed he mails Josh whenever he can, but when the time passes he writes infrequently.
(P. 34, ll. 29 – 32) “We could only cross our finders and wish on stars and hit refresh, refresh, refresh, hoping that they would return to us, praying that they