How Does Spencer Morgan's Character Change Throughout The Novel

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Soldier Boys is a fiction novel published in 2001, written by Dean Hughes. The story takes place during World War 1. Throughout the story you read from the perspectives of two young boys from different countries. Spencer Morgan and Dieter Hedrick are the two young boys in which the book mainly focuses on. Throughout the book you are drawn into the daily lives of each one of boys and you get to experience how they mature in character. Spencer Morgan is a young religious boy who is caring and trustworthy to practically anyone he meets. Spencer is the type of person that loves life but sometimes can make some mindless decisions. He is your average American boy who wants to join the military as soon as possible to show sign of courage to those close to him. At the age of sixteen, Spencer decides to drop out of highschool to join the military as a paratrooper. Dieter Hedrick is a diligent worker, who does not care what other people ponder about him. He is the type of person who believes he is always right and only the things Spencer rushed into the joining the war without thinking about what he would do if he survived and came back from the war because he dropped out of high school so he would have struggled if he got back to even get the simplest job. You also see this when Spencer is talking to his dad who from personal experience severed in World War I, he said that many people go to war not knowing the consequences that are to come.You also get a glimpse of this in Dieters perspective, when he gets his first taste of action and he stands up shooting, trying to be a hero but schafer ends up bring him down and lecturing him over how he should never try to be the hero because that how you end up dead. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone and i thought it was a fantastic book. What I liked most about it was reading from two different perspectives and how those different perspectives met through the

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