DESPERATE QUESTION: need help on writing a letter to my parents?

Question

My homework is to write a letter to my parents ....when i am in WW1 . so i am soldier.
So how do i start my letter?

ex. My dearest mother and father
I am writing this letter to report you that i am doing well...


I know that sounds really boring. and simple...SO PLEASE i have been stuck on tjis and i am not really good in ENGLISH..
PLEASE HELP ME :( what should i write

Answer 1

You need two sources:

1. Sound recording called Lest We Forget, featuring the music and poetry of the WWs read magnificently by Jacobi and Gielgud. Here's the bumpf on it from the library:

Pomp & circumstance: March no. 4 in G major / Elgar -- Lines from For the fallen / Binyon -- On the idle hill of summer / Housman -- In time of the breaking nations / Hardy -- Salut d'amour / Elgar -- The autumn of the world / Read -- The planets: Mars, the bringer of war / Holst -- Attack ; The general / Sassoon -- For the fallen / Binyon -- In memoriam / Thomas -- The dead (IV) / Brooker -- Returning, we hear the larks / Rosenberg -- Everyone sing / Sassoon -- Chanson de matin / Elgar -- On the dead in Gallipoli / Maserfield -- Elegy / Elgar -- Before action / Hodgson -- The soldier / Brooke -- Futility / Owen -- In Flanders Fields / McCree -- Chanson de nuit / Elgar -- The hand that signed the paper / Thomas -- Summer night on the river / Delius -- To a conscript of 1940 / Read -- Watching post / Lewis -- Naming of parts / Reed -- All day it has rained / Lewis -- Peter Grimes: Dawn / Britten -- Song of the dying gunner / Causley -- For Johnny / Pudney -- Planets: Venus, the bringer of peace / Holst -- Midnight, May 7th, 1945 / Dickinson -- Will it be so again? / Lewis -- At the British war cemetery, Bayeux / Causley -- Enigma Variations: Nimrod / Elgar -- And death shall have no dominion / Thomas -- Pomp & circumstance: March no 1 in D major / Elgar -- Lines from For the fallen / Binyon.

Additional Names: Elgard, Edward, 1857-1934. Orchestra music. Selections.
Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934. Planets. Selections.
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Orchestra music. Selections.
Calvert, Phyllis.
Gielgud, John, Sir, 1904-
Orr, Peter.
Jacobi, Derek.
Davis, Andrew, 1944-
BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Notes: DDD.
Program notes, including poetic texts and readings enclosed.
"A collection of poetry & music dedicated to the memory of those who fell in two world wars" -- cover.
Includes readings of poetry by Laurence Binyon; A.E. Housman; Thomas Hardy; Herbert Read; Edward Thomas; Rupert Brooke and others.

It's arranged chronologically so WWI is first. This will give you a wonderful feeling for the time and its sensibility.

2. View the excellent miniseries (or read the book) of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/britta.htm. Here's a quick taste, including excellent VB sources:

British pacifist, feminist, poet, and novelist. Brittain's novels are largely autobiographical. Her best-known work is TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (1933), a story of 'the lost generation' and the irrevocable changes in her life caused by World War I. Its has been sometimes compared to Robert Graves's more bitter autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929) - both personal farewells to the past and the England they knew.

"We had quite a gay bridge at the Whiteheads' this afternoon. I was most rash and doubled all I could and went "no trumps" on both possible & impossible hands, but just missed the prime. I finished Felix Holt after dinner. How George Eliot's books do inspire me; they make all good seem worthwhile. How I long to be such a character as Felix Holt, to have no regard for failure, to hold an ideal for humanity high enough to be forever leading further onward & yet applicable to the smallest things of life! How I yearn to follow pure and heavenly aspiration, without the alloy of a desire for self-glory or of personal ambition, to heal some little part of the sore burdens of mankind." (Brittain in her diary in 1913, from Phoenix, 2000)
Vera Brittain was born at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire. Her father, Thomas Brittain, was a wealthy paper manufacturer, and her mother Edith Bervon. Her childhood years Brittain spend in Macclesfield with her brother Edward who was less than two years her junior. She was educated at St Monica's School. After completing her final term, she returned to her parents' home in Buxton, Derbyshire. To escape the Northern provinces and her sheltered life, she wanted to continue her studies at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father first rejected the idea, but eventually her parents gave up their opposition.

"When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as superlative tragedy," wrote Brittain in Testament of Youth, "but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans." Brittain left Somerville temporarily and served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. Her fiancé, Roland Leighton, was killed by a sniper's bullet in 1915. "Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heartbreaking descriptions, have made me realize war like your letters," she had written to Leighton shortly after she arrived on the Western Front. She also lost her younger brother Edward, who died in 1918 on the Italian Front, and two close friends, Geoffrey Thurlow and Victor Nicholson. Their moving correspondence, LETTERS FROM A LOST GENERATION, was published in 1999. Brittain worked as a nurse's aide in hospitals in Malta and near the Western Front, nursing English soldiers and German prisoners, and witnessing at firsthand the consequences of modern combat. These experiences turned Brittain into a convicted pacifist, and an active member of peace movements in both England and the United States.

After the war she worked as a teacher in Oxford and in 1922 moved to London, devoting herself to writing. Between the years 1921 and 1925 Brittain travelled extensively in Europe. Her journeys included visits to the Rhineland, the Ruhr, and Cologne, during the post-war occupation of Germany. In 1925 Brittain married the political scientist George C.G.Catlin (1896-1979), who was later appointed professor of politics at Cornell University and knighted in 1970. Soon after their marriage they went to the United States and lived for a year in Ithaca, New York.

While George Caitlin lived in the United States, working at Cornell, Brittain remained in England. She developed a close friendship with the novelist and ardent feminist Winifred Holtby (1898-1935), whom she had met in Oxford. Holtby had served during World War I in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. In 1922 they settled in a flat in London as aspiring writers. Holtby's novel Anderby Wold appeared next year. Her last novel, South Riding (1936), was set in Yorkshire, and told the story of an enterprising headmistress Sarah Burton.

In 1923 Brittain published her first novel, THE DARK TIDE. It was an account of life in Oxford and the sexism she encountered there, and her early struggles as a woman to achieve an education. The central characters, Virginia Dennison and Daphne Lethbridge, were the thinly veiled Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby. It provoked a storm of protests in Oxford, where the dons believed it would bring bad publicity for the college. Her wartime experiences and marriage to George Caitlin were recounted in Testament of Youth. The book was based on her diary, which she began in 1913, and which was published in 2000 under the title PHOENIX: CHRONICLE OF YOUTH. Testament of Youth was an immediate bestseller and has gained the status of an important feminist text.

Brittain joined the Peace Pledge Union of Canon Dick Sheppard, and also fought for peace during World War II. Against the dominating climate of opinion, in SEED OF CHAOS (1944) she fearlessly attacked the saturation bombing of Germany. The book was rejected unanimously both in England and America.

Although Brittain wrote after her autobiography several volumes of poetry and fiction, she is perhaps best remembered for Testament of Friendship (1940), a memorial to Winifred Holtby, and TESTAMENT OF EXPERIENCE (1957), a companion to the early autobiography, which covers the years 1925-50. Her other books include BORN 1925, a family saga dealing with the responses of two generations to World War II, LADY INTO WOMAN: A HISTORY OF WOMEN FROM VICTORIA TO ELISABETH II (1953), RADCLYFFE HALL: A CASE OF OBSCENITY? (1968), which defended Hall's lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness. Brittain's diaries between 1913 and 1917 were published under the title CHRONICLE OF YOUTH (1981).

Vera Brittain was an Honorary Life President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, a vice-president of the National Peace Council, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She died in London on March 29, 1970. Her daughter, Shirley Williams, was a prominent Labour Party politician and cabinet minister in 1960. She co-founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and served as its president in 1982-88.

For further reading: On Second Thought by J. Gray (1946); The Vera Brittain Archive in McMaster University Library by T. Smart et al. (1977); Feminist Theorists by M. Mellown (1983); Vera Brittain by G. Handley-Taylor and J.M. Dockeray (1983); Between Ourselves, ed. by K. Payne (1984); Family Quartet by J. Catlin (1987); Vera Brittain. The Story of the Woman Who Wrote Testament of Youth by H. Bailey (1987); Eva Brittain and Winifred Holtby by J.E. Kenard (1989); A Life of Her Own: Feminism in Vera Brittain's Theory, Fiction, and Biography by Britta Zangen (1996); Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life by Deborah Gorham (1996); Letters from a Lost Generation: The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends, ed. by Alan Bishop (1999)
Selected works:

VERSES OF A V.A.D., 1918
OXFORD POETRY, 1918-1920, 1920 (ed.)
THE DARK TIDE, 1923
NOT WITHOUT HONOUR, 1924
WOMEN'S WORK IN MODERN ENGLAND, 1928
HALCYON, OR, THE FUTURE OF MONOGAMY, 1929
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, 1933
POEMS OF THE WAR AND AFTER, 1934
HONOURABLE ESTATE, 1936
THRICE STRANGER, 1938
TESTAMENT OF FRIENDSHIP, 1940
WAR-TIME LETTERS TO PEACE LOVERS, 1940
ENGLAND'S HOUR, 1941
SEED OF CHAOS, 1944
ACCOUNT RENDERED, 1945
ABOVE ALL NATIONS, 1945 (with G. Caitlin and S. Hodges)
ON BECOMING A WRITER, 1947
BORN 1924, 1948
VALIANT PILGRIM, 1950 (in U.S. In the Steps of John Bunyan)
SEARCH AFTER SUNRISE, 1951
THE STORY OF ST. MARTINS-IN-THE-FIELD, 1951
LADY INTO WOMAN, 1953
TESTAMENT OF EXPERIENCE, 1957
LONG SHADOWS, 1958 (with G.E.W. Sizer)
THE WOMEN AT OXFORD, 1959
SELECTED LETTERS OF WINIFRED HOLTBY AND VERA BRITTAIN, 1960
PETHICK-LAWRENCE, 1963
THE REBEL PASSION, 1964
ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY, 1965
RADCLYFFE HALL: A CASE OF OBSCENITY?, 1968
CHRONICLE OF YOUTH, 1981
TESTAMENT OF PEACE LOVER, 1988
TESTAMENT OF A GENERATION, 1988
WARTIME CHRONICLE, 1989
VERA BRITTAIN'S DIARY 1939-1945, 1993
PHOENIX, A CHRONICLE OF YOUTH, 2000 (ed. by Alan Bishop)

A fascinating woman; a terrible time. Google the term, 'mustard gas' for a few of the horror stories the boys endured - or didn't - in the trenches. Unbelievable.

Rum stuff. Very rum.

Answer 2

It's not a matter of are you old enough to take care of yourself, but are you capable of taking care of yourself. If you don't even know where you're going, you're going to end up on some street corner with no food or shelter and your drug problem will only get worse. If you have a source of income and can afford a place to live, then sure go for it if you think it will make you happy, but judging from the information you've provided, that does not seem to be the case (correct me if I'm wrong). If you're going to leave the food and shelter your parents are providing you sure as hell better have a plan or you'll be just another homeless drug addict. I can understand being pissed at your parents, but would you really rather be homeless than stand one more minute under their roof? Talking to your parents in person is the best thing you could possibly do. They can get you help! If you could only just tell them how you feel just as you explained here, then your relationship would improve incredibly. I know their probably the last people you want to talk to, but they're probably the only ones who care about you enough to get you the help you need if you only just asked for it. Do not rely on your buddies to let you crash for a few weeks, months, years. Trust me, they will not be as willing to sacrifice for you as your parents no matter how mean they seem, they obviously haven't kicked you out yet, so that must count for something. Talk to them in person, don't just leave a note and bail without a trace!

Answer 3

Some men lied about their age to go to war. Once there they were scared and wanted to come home. Why don't you write your letter from that point of view. You can write about what is going on and why you are scared.
Start the letter with Dearest Mother and Father.
Good luck.

Answer 4

yo mum, pap !!! wats sup ???...are you allright there?. i miss you a lot and love you too

army is boring and as u may guess NO GIRLSSSSSSS!!!

haha ....- here is an idea :P

Answer 5

google some. and see what they are like
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/soldier/letter02.shtml

Answer 6

write,what u think just be ur shelf
it will not boring i think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!