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Wood Grouse on a High Promontory
Over looking Canada

This story takes place at the frontier between USA and Canada in the mountains. On this place two brothers walk together. The little brother called Bud, and the big brother called Gary. Gary is just returned from the Vietnam War, which tell us something about the story’s time. I guess the time is in the last 1970’s. This story has two dimensions, which makes the story in an interesting manner. The one dimension is the reality we know; we just watch the war in the media. The other dimension is the reality Gary and the soldiers know; the real war, when you practically are in the war. Gary symbolizes the soldiers, while the little brother Bud symbolizes the population/the politician. An example is when Bud shoots down a bird, and after that Gary kills the bird. It is in the same way you can say about a war; after all it is the population/the politician, who are the real murders. The soldiers just do the hard/last work. The problem arises, as we (the politician/the population) do not know much about the war. We do not know how mentally depressed it is to be a soldier. It is so distantly. As the quotation says:
” I didn’t think I was going to hit one, Gary.”
(Line 59)
It shows that from the throw to the dead, we (population/Bud) believe that it does no harm to throw the stone. But after the bird is dead we begin to think and feel like Bud did – shame. This is under discussion in Denmark today. Many Danish soldiers have been killed in Iraq and some are mentally depressed.
In our daily life the war is distantly and we are not influenced of the war like the soldiers are.
But often the soldiers in Denmark have their right to chose to do without call-up. But still we do not know must about the soldier’s life in the war. We can with easiness say that we shall go to war; we do not think that it will affect people. In the same way Bud thought that the throw would not affect the bird. First afterwards, when the Danish soldiers went home the population realizes that the soldiers got problems, and some people feel deep down shame. These soldiers have just carried out the politic decision, which includes many cruel consequences.

It also appears in the text that the two brothers are taking a trip to the mountains because Gary wants to escape from the war and the surrounding world, while Bud wants to see the unknown world in the mountains. These two brothers are like contrasts. Gary is emotional and appreciates the life, while Bud does not have learned to appreciate the life and learn to see the throw’s consequences, when he chooses to shoot down the bird called Wood Grouse. Bud does not know the consequences of war and fights. In the story Bud tells his brother about a fight between him and a boy, he says that this thing does not really matter. It seems to show that Bud is not affected of the war, because the fight is a war on a smaller level.
After they have talked together, they cross the border many times. Symbolic it is about to live in two different politic systems. The one system is the United States’ system. In this system you are not allowed to become a draft dodger. The other system is Canada’s system. In this system you have right to become a draft dodger . I think that if Gary could choose, he would before the war become a draft dodger. The border symbolizes the freedom between being a draft dodger and being a soldier. On the border there is a stone with a number, which makes it more ironical that one stone is holding your freedom back. As Gary says:
,, Draft-dodger heaven”
(Line 37)
We have in English with Per worked with borders in a text called: “Step across this line”, which discuss the land frontiers’ importance.
In the night Gary and Bud talk about the space, Mars and the light-year. These things are distant from the real life and the war. Maybe Gary wishes to talk about something distant because the border reminds him about the war, while Bud likes to talk about the unknown world.

This short story has these messages that war is horrible even for the soldiers, and you should have the right to become a draft dodger. The text is critical of the United States’ society under the Vietnam War. The text also got the message that we have distant from the real world.

“The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.”
William Hazlitt