Task #1 In War Gives Us Meaning Author Chris Hedges outlines a few points that give light to the whole book. He outlines three main points. War is part of our culture, we have a myth behind what is actually there and finally, we use war as a crusade. These three main points make up the entree of the whole book. We can see it our everyday culture with things like Call of Duty and Star Wars. We are feed this stuff as kids and we learn from it. He goes on to talk about how we perceive war as a myth. We as the public do not see the true ugliness of it. All we see is what the military and the press wants us to see. Lastly, we see that war as the crusade. When this being feeds to use from a young age we learn how the enemy is. We also get this In a single quote to wrap up the book “When you stop believing, you stop going to war”. This quote is very true when we stop belief in the cause and the myth it will be different. Task #2 In my interviews with two different people, the results were shockingly similar. Both people believed that war benefits our society. Cody went on to state that it will be necessary for future. They also said that it is necessary for the U.S to be a peacekeeping force since we are a major power in the world. It was also stated that if we are the main power of the world and we are supremely on top. In Cody’s family only 2 people have served and in Will 's family, no one had served. Cody had told me that of the two people, one was drafted and the other had volunteered. He didn’t know their opinion on their service since both had already passed away. They both stated that they supported the U.S but they didn’t go out of their way to show support for them. They both did things like singing the national anthem and saying the pledge of allegiance. With the question about the 9-11 and recent terrorist attacks both felt concerned about their own personal safety. They believe that U.S needed to step on its
My thoughts after reading this book are that war can really take a toll on someone and war can bring out the worst in everyone. Works Cited:.. Caputo, Philip. The. A Rumor of War.
According to Christopher and James Collier,”War turns men into beasts.” It is true because many people are willing to
How does war affect humans? Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, is about how the war between humans and buggers forcefully changed Ender Wiggin from a genius, who was isolated in school, into a brilliant military commander. He thought the child that the International Fleet wanted was Peter Wiggin, which is Ender’s brother, and not him. Ender's Game is about anti-war because it shows how did Ender's life changed in a bad way, and how the war make him break down and how people did not have a choice to pick who they wanted to be and what to do.
Another unique aspect to this book is the constant change in point of view. This change in point of view emphasizes the disorder associated with war. At some points during the book, it is a first person point of view, and at other times it changes to an outside third person point of view. In the first chapter of the book, “The Things They Carried,” O’Brien writes, “The things they carried were largely determined by necessity (2).
...n the process. And the final quote to sum this all up about where war is leading everyone is, "'But do you have a peaceful planet?'...'Today we do. On other days we have wars as horrible as any you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments'" (150). What Vonnegut is saying in this quote if applied to earth and modern warfare, is that as a nation, everyone tends to look the other way and always will which will lead to everyone’s demise.
The cover of this book was the first thing that interested me. Its title, Ghosts of War, was eye catching. After picking up the book, the quote made me pause and read the summary, rather than placing the book back onto the shelf like I had done with countless others. The quote had been “If I don't do something, who will?”
Tim O’Brien states in his novel The Things They Carried, “The truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty. For all its horror, you can’t help but gape at the awful majesty of combat” (77). This profound statement captures not only his perspective of war from his experience in Vietnam but a collective truth about war across the ages. It is not called the art of combat without reason: this truth transcends time and can be found in the art produced and poetry written during the years of World War I. George Trakl creates beautiful images of the war in his poem “Grodek” but juxtaposes them with the harsh realities of war. Paul Nash, a World War I artist, invokes similar images in his paintings We are Making a New World and The Ypres Salient at Night. Guilaume Apollinaire’s writes about the beautiful atrocity that is war in his poem “Gala.”
...ome aspect of war, from battling with enemies to how battle spiritually destroys young men. The one positive point of this novel is how friends cared for one another when going through tragedies and stressful experiences. It also portrays how strong a soldier needs to be, in order for them to be in the war.
In Hedges' first chapter of the book titled, "The Myth of War," he talks about how the press often shows and romanticizes certain aspects of war. In war there is a mythic reality and a sensory reality. In sensory reality, we see events for what they are. In mythic reality, we see defeats as "signposts on the road to ultimate victory" (21). Chris Hedges brings up an intriguing point: the war we are most used to seeing and hearing about (mythic war) is a war completely different than the war the soldiers and journalists experience ( sensory war), a war that hides nothing.
The Civil War, World War I, the Vietnam War, World War II, and the conflict in the Middle East are all wars that have been fought over the difference of opinions, yet come at the cost of the soldier 's fighting them; Humans killing other humans, and death is just one of the many emotional scars soldiers of war face. Why do we go to war when this is the cost? For many it is because they are unaware of the psychological cost of war, they are only aware of the monetary cost or the personal gains they get from war. Tim O 'Brien addresses the true cost of war in "The Things They Carried". O 'Brien suggests that psychological trauma caused by war warps the perception of life in young Americans drafted into the Vietnam War. He does this through Lieutenant
“…It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.”
In the beginning of the short story, the young boy is already imprinted with the ideas of war from his father. His father was a former soldier who “had fought against naked savages and followed the flag of his country..” (Bierce 41). The image of war that is imprinted on the young boy from his father is that of nobility and righteous that comes from war.
The Struggles in life is something everyone is faced with whether it is physical, emotional mental or personal struggles. These struggles are capable of shaping an individual’s personality and outlook on life. Timothy Findley’s novel The Wars, shows that struggles lead to the character’s ultimate inner struggles, outer struggles and self-discovery. War exists in a person’s physical and psychological aspects. In The Wars, Robert Ross goes to war and fights a personal and physical battle.
The structure of Faulk’s Birdsong allows us to observe the impact of the War upon numerous individuals across the generations. Throughout the novel, even outside the 1914-1918 time-frame, Faulks continues to maintain a link between the past and the present through his use of a number of motifs and themes. The lasting impact of the War suggests that history should never be forgotten, which is the paramount message in Birdsong.
War affects people differently, depending on the person’s morals and their position in the war, whether it be a soldier, family member, or a civilian. Robert Jordan was not necessarily eager to enter the Spanish Civil War in For Whom The Bell Tolls but he knew that he was needed