The Bloodiest Battle Of All Analysis

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The government often romanticizes war, giving the illusion that it is part of a heroic tale. However, within the last century, new war tactics show the devastation of war, emphasized by the modernist movement. Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All by William Manchester is an essay speaking of the scars that war leaves and how flawed the fairy tale of war is, using several literary terms to support his thesis. Manchester writes his essay in first person perspective to make the essay more personal and to improve his pathos. He uses imagery to paint horrifying pictures, such as his description of when he fell during battle. “Hours later, corpsmen found me still breathing, though blind and deaf, with my back and chest a junkyard of iron fragments,

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