study the history of my becoming a man", (Conroy, 1). The Lords of Discipline is

essentially the story of Will McLean growing up and learning what it really means to be

an honorable man. He began the book as one person: a young, naive cadet in his

senior year who used humor to keep everyone from seeing how troubled he was. The

book ends with Will as a wholly different person due to catastrophic events that

happened during the course of his final year at the Carolina Military Institute. Will

endured the "plebe year" at the Institute, he fell in love with a pregnant girl, uncovered

a well-hidden misuse of power in the Institute and because of that discovery, suffered

the death of a close friend and the loss of many other people he thought he could trust.

All these events contribute in different ways to Will becoming an honorable man.

Will enrolled in the Institute because his father, on his deathbed, made him

promise to graduate from the Institute, just as he had. He went on a basketball

scholarship, unaware of the brutal initiation required for all freshman. Within the first

During that same time, Will met a young pregnant girl. Her name was Annie

Taming". The cadre would find the weakness of the plebe and exploit it. If they were

While Will was at a party at Tradd's house, Annie Kate called and said she was

Will always did whatever he could to be and honest and honorable cadet. Even

In the midst of all the turmoil around him, Will managed to survive, and even

afraid of bugs, the cadre would cover the plebes body with insects until he agreed to

and tossed matches dangerously close. They made him faint and revived him by

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Approximate Word count = 1742
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)