Before discussing today's reading, we spent the first segment of the session reviewing Joshua's rewrite of his final essay on "Billy Budd." I demonstrated how to combine sentences and to vary sentence structure and noted how one paragraph within the body of the essay was not relevant to the moral question posed by the prompt. I again suggested that Joshua refer to the text more when drafting a literary essay. During the second half of the session, we located additional examples of the author's laconic detached tone when discussing the war as a mechanized killing machine. Further, we explored the protagonist's discussion with the priest about God and noted how Lt.Henry's physical wound is symbolic of his thwarted emotional state which will heal only when he is able to love another person.