Nina Godridge " Relief"

Hello everybody, it's Nina Godridge submitting an early review for this weeks readings. I don't know about you guys but I really enjoyed reading " Relief" by Peter Ho Davies. It was a funny start to the story with the line " ...too boisterous fart to slip between his buttocks." (120) Laughing hard at the imagery portrayed quite vividly. I think what made laugh the most about the entire story is how one man's fart starts a story. It literally starts with a description of a fart that then leads to another story about farts by Lieutenant Bromhead, well towards the end, but between that and then Wilby does recall the farts he was producing while on his horse. I felt so bad for the poor horse. There are all these scenes captured before hand to the initial opening scene with all the men sitting at the table eating, drinking port, and smoking cigars.
Now I am realizing that I am a child at heart, I am laughing at farts when they are completely normal bodily function. Everyone does them.
I really like the style of the perspective; the story is written in the third person so it's as if there is another entity telling the story of Wilby's fart and how it created a ripple effect at the dinner table with other men at his rank or above in this war. Also the flow of the story was excellent with the breaking spaces between past and present paragraphs. Overall, once we get to the end and have another laugh about farts in a classroom setting we end with Bromhead and his batman sipping on port and calling it a night. I just really loved the interlude between all these moments at the dinner table and looking back on past farts create this story about these heroes of war actually being human. They are heroes of war but they are like anybody else, they fart, they get embarrassed, they laugh and move on with their lives. And personally, if I wrote this story as much as " Relief" is an excellent title to tie in the story, why not call it " Sweet Relief"?