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... Heywood Broun’s “The Fifty-First Dragon” has been targeted as a satire discouraging paternalism. ...
Broun, a war correspondent in France during the first World War, does not really care about the authoritarian headmaster at the prep school nor does he care about the paternalism of the headmaster in respect to Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy. ...
In “The Fifty-First Dragon,” Broun entails things such as Gawaine’s dragon-killing “technique” and name translations to make points about the war. For example, Gawaine’s technique of sneaking up on the dragon and then killing it might remind a reader of the strategy of trench warfare, used often during World War I. ...
In addition, the dragon believed that Gawaine’s magic word, “Runplesnitz,” stood for “reactionary Republican.
Approximate Word count = 597
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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