Now and then some trivial argument would break out,
and one of them would kill another one, and all the
others would detach themselves from the killer as neatly
as blood clotting, and they'd consider the case and they'd
either excuse him, for some reason, or else send him out
to the forest to live by stealing from their outlying pens
like a wounded fox. At times I would try to befriend the
exile, at other times I would try to ignore him, but they
were treacherous. In the end. I had to eat them.
-Grendel,
John Gardner
He thinks they are weak and amusing
He thinks they are brave and honorable.
He thinks they are friendly and caring.
He thinks they are violent and untrustworthy.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.