The theme of the reading is about how during the war supplies were very limited and there is a great difference in the amount of the ration depending where you were at. I found it interesting how the ration Britain differed so much depending where you were at and even how little the troops were getting. It is wrong for the troops to get so little when they are the ones who need their strength to fight but yet they do not seem that important to their country.
Reading this got me to thinking about how this really affected everyone in the world. With the war mostly in Europe and the western part of Europe at that, was destroyed with a lot gone; the land, factories, and even homes. The land was not good to grow crops on, the factories were not there to make produces for people. It truly affected everyone with everything. Not just by the loss of lives but the loss of everything else. The lasting affects of the war were most likely just as damaging to the countries as the war itself. The war made it hard to rebuild and get back to life as normal.
The Modern parallels I see with this reading would have to be inflation. Inflation is not something that you can control, just like the rations the people could not control. The thing that is different is rations will most likely go away once you have a change to rebuild after a war, but inflation just keeps on growing and building up. There is not much you can do about inflation but hope that it goes away. But I guess people who lived during this time period would say that same thing about the rations, just hope that it goes away.
This reading relates to the text in the way that it shines a greater light on what life during the war was like. The war was not pretty but the text really does not show how bad it really was. This reading helps build on what the text says about the war. The war did a lot of damage but you really see how hard it was on everyone when you read what they had to go through.
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