HBL Task 1

Children in the Darkness

-Was written in year 2009, during Christmas

-Written by Henry M Bechtold when in his hotel room during his stay at Saigon.

-The poet was inspired by the photo of a young boy carrying an automatic rifle going

to war in the news.

In the poem, the poet talk about Children that are involved in war and that

they are being robbed of their childhood and forced to be engaged with war.

In the past twenty years, there has been estimated that there are over millions
of children that has been used in the war or dragged into with their parents.
Children are usually used as nurses, spies. They are in charge if guarding
resources, general camps, drumboys, and worst of all, infantries soldiers who

are put at the front line to test out for enemy mines.

2 million children died
5 million disabled
12 million homeless
1 million orphan
10 million shell-shocked.

Children are treated as lower classes of soldiers or recruits in the war as in

the context to the poem, Children in the darkness. They are given high risks

task as they are of low value