Private war of Private Jacob

This story is about a military private named Jacob who is in a desert like place fighting off an enemy much like a common war. He and his fellow soldiers fight of the enemy and some of them get injured but the one who seems to not get hit at all is sergeant Melford. Melford doesn’t do anything to fight of the enemy, never gets injured, and he laughs during battle. When Melford is killed during battle his personality gets downloaded into Jacob and he becomes exactly like him.

One of the topics of the story is teamwork. In the story the army all join together in battle and they all fight through the rough terrain and the enemy together and they don’t give up. They all stay together and they know when to do what. An example of this is when they are in the desert. They know what speed and how rough it is but they work together to prevent getting burnt in the heat.

The topic is that people in a higher ranking won’t do as much work as the people in lower ranks. In the story Jacob doesn’t like the fact that Melford doesn’t do much but laugh and yell orders in the battles while the soldiers do all of the work. When Melford gets killed and his ranking gets transferred to Jacob he doesn’t do anything but laugh while his soldiers are wounded. He probably would have done different if he wasn’t promoted.