The book Silent Night is a book about a truce between the Germans and the allies during World War One to celebrate the holiday of Christmas. The book depicts what living through World War One was like by painting pictures of how life was like through living conditions, what the fighting was like, and how eventually people come together. Two areas in this book that stuck out so far were the depiction of the living conditions and how people can really come together even if there is so much hate. The trenches during World War One where wretched because of all of the situations that could go wrong such as drowning in the mud from the trench or getting infections on the body from the mud such as ringworm. Reading that the Germans and allies came together during Christmas was surprising because they seemed to hate each other a lot and seeing them come together was unexpected. …show more content…
The narrator explains “Unless soldiers moved about, they would sink into the liquefying mud, and many slept erect if they could, leaning against the dripping trench walls. (Silent Night pg.2)” The first part of this quote explains what one of the most horrific factors about living in a trench. Additionally quote shows that living in a trench could cause someone their life because of the ease of mud overflowing the trenches. Furthermore this quote explains the little sleep that soldiers had when they lived in trenches; thinking about when the mud would overflow or when the next bomb would explode, while sleeping in the freezing cold was extremely hard which made sleeping also hard. These facts prove that living in a trench was very hard and taxing on the body and the novel really depicts these living conditions well throughout the book so