Summary Of A War Film By Pauline Barrington

Education is about tears sheading of the thought of a mother’s children being in the war and fearing the death caused by the war. “The tears are slipping, dripping one by one” (Barrington, Education 6). This poem by Pauline Barrington conveys the sense of helplessness and fear for the next generation of children. Barrington demonstrates how the children played so innocently “the children play with soldiers made of tin” (Barrington, Education 3). The game is only brutalized by the realities of war. The emotional perception questions whether or not innocence can be saved in the world full of horror. The women on the homefront did not have much say in the situations involving the war, so they remained with the fear of their children’s damaged futures. “dripping death on earth” (Barrington, Education 21). This line signified the repetition of war and how women viewed it was shown as an ongoing disastrous event.
The thought of how the suffering heroes in the film could one day be her child cautioned her. She feared of the futures uncertainties, but while her child is still young she tried to cherish every moment, “Why I kissed and kissed and kissed him, crooning his name?” (Hooley, line 27). The mother also began to feel sorrow for all of the other mothers, “Yet all those men had mothers, every one.” (Holley, line 25). While she contemplates about all the possibilities, her child has no idea of what the future may hold. “He thought it was a game, And laughed, and laughed.” (Hooley, line 30). The innocents and unawareness is so effortlessly