A LETTER TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER
The text is composed of five sections.
In the first section, the writer explains what “A letter to an unknown soldier” is. It is a new kind of war memorial, that conxists in writing a letter to the statue situated in Paddington station in London. The statue is made of bronze, it was built by Charles Sargeant Jagger and it represents serving trench infantryman, who is reading a letter, but are not presented clues of it. Someone thinks that it is smiling while others are opposed.
In the second and the third section, the writer explains how people can write a letter to an unknown soldier. There are two systems: the first is that we can post the letter to a website, and the second is that people write a letter on paper. A letter to an unknown soldier was opened up on 28th June 2014 that was one hundreds of years from Franz Ferdinand assassination. On the website, the participations were opened on 4 August 2014.
In thefourthsection, the writer answers at the question “Who will write the letter?”. Everybody can write a letter, and it was created a list of participants in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Especially this project is referred to secondary school students. The purposes of the project were: to be open to everybody, to get letters from people who would never think of themselves as writers and to receive at least a thousand letters on our website a day for each of the thirty-five days that the site is open.
In thefifth section, the writerexplains what 14-18 NOW is. It is commissioning leading artists to create new work as part of the UK’s First World War centenary commemorations. Musicians, writers, painters, photographers, theatre directors, film-makers, digital designers, composers, poets, choreographers and more will be invited to look afresh at the First World War and what its many stories reveal about the world we live in today. A LETTER TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER is one of first tranche of commissions.
This group was created by Neil Barlett, a novelist and theatre-maker and Kate Pullingeris, a novelist and a digital writer.