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C.S. Forester's Rifleman Dodd

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It is a story about a soldier, perhaps the perfect exemplary soldier, and thus illustrates qualities that are desired, if not required, by men who engage in military activity.  Rifleman Dodd is a man who is engaged in battle during the Napoleonic Wars. He is a British soldier who has been separated from his company. As such he finds  himself alone and disoriented to some degree in a land that he is unfamiliar with. He does not know the land, the people, the customs, the language, or anything about  the region he is in. This puts the man in a position where he will either provide the reader with strength, intelligence, and ultimately success, or just the opposite.  We see Dodd as a very determined and simple man in many ways. He is, in essence, only doing his job as a soldier. He is not rationalizing his existence,  trying to make excuses for why he is in this position. He is nothing but a soldier and he feels that he must do his best as a soldier. He  endures such things as bitter cold, and hunger and thirst, never seemingly complaining about his lost position. After all, in the eyes of Dodd, he has a duty to get  back to his company and to continue serving his country. He thinks of nothing else but this simplistic mission. He never seems to waver as he encounters the French  and tries to wreak havoc, like a good soldier, despite his precarious position. He does not think of his own safety necessarily, but thinks of the cause, the fight, the  ultimate war that he is a part of. In these respects he is seen as the perfect soldier. It does not matter that the place and time are from the