ms. samet: the subject of grant is well written about by so many people, mostly by historians. i am a professor of literature. my primary interest was in his language and the way that he represents his war experience. i wanted to try to put the book in its cultural context and in in the spectrum of war writing. i wanted to show how challenging it is to write about war and how grant does that. brian: you teach english to what group? ms. samet: i teaching was to cadets, everything from our first year cadets, known as plebes, to our upperclassman who are sometimes majors. we have a full range of underclassmen. brian: anything different from teaching to a cadet at west point and a student at a normal university? ms. samet: there are many similarities, but my students have a particular idea of what they will be doing after graduation. our study of literature has a shared context that i think mig ht not be the case at other institutions. brian: how did you go to west point? ms. samet: part of that an

ms. samet: the subject of grant is well written about by so many

ms. samet: the subject of grant is well

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