World War One Monologue

Over sixteen million people died in World War One. About ten million soldiers and over six million civilians. Later on this war was known to be called World War one. It was called the Great war because World War two didn’t come yet.I always thought that I would be with my family until the great war paid a visit. “Mark!” Called my mother,”go deliver the papers.”

“Ok!” I answered. I hated delivering the newspapers. Every Time I did I would get on my rusty old bike and deliver newspapers and sometimes it would break and then I would have to fix it. But each time before I would deliver I would skim through the paper and see if there is anything interesting. I saw this one thing and it was very interesting it was about conflict everywhere. When

Then I remembered that I had to deliver the paper. As usual, I would skim through the paper. I was so surprised so many people already died. Everyone was calling it the great war. So I wake my mother up and tell her that we have to take care of the house and farm.

“No Mark I have better things to do” yelled mother furiously. Mother was still angry that Father and Tim were at war. Everything left her mind.

About 4 years later I wake up and work on the farm. I knew how to work one because my mother taught me. Mother was not really worrying about father and Tim. I was reading the paper this morning and It said over five hundred thousand New Yorkers served for america, but about thirteen thousand died. I was hoping that Tim and father was ok.

“Mom” I said in a soft voice. “Look what it says on the paper, it says that over seventeen million people died in the Great war, and one hundred and sixteen thousand were American, and twenty million was wounded in the U.S. I was really surprised because that was the biggest war I have ever heard about.”

“You think this is supposed to cheer me up” said mom.

“No, I was just telling you what was happening in the world” I said. She didn’t