Journal Post 4: Refresh, Refresh

     The impact of digital communication in war overseas is shown in the graphic novel Refresh, Refresh and the documentary Where Soldiers Come From. Soldiers used to write letters to communicate with family back home and vice versa. Now it is much easier, a simple email or IM can be sent in a matter of seconds compared to the days it takes a letter to be delivered. Refresh, Refresh gets its name from this modern day digital communication. In the story, there is three boys names Josh, Cody, and Gordon whose fathers leave for war and one of them keeps clicking refresh on his email with hopes to hear back from his father. They eventually decide they want to go to war like their fathers and after a troubling incident make an impulse decision to enlist. In the end, I thought the novel was well written and the pictures helped tell the story. The only drawback was how it was so pro going to war. It was as if I was reading a recruiting novel because it made me want to enlist.

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