Aymo: The True Ugliness Of War

War connects with futility due to the death of Aymo while in battle. The battle between the Germans and Italians was chaos because many Italian soldiers are shooting at random. Unfortunately, Aymo is shot to death by his own companions due to the chaos that is happening on the battlefield. Italians can’t tell who are the Germans, so they started shooting at random people and I think this battle shows the true ugliness of war. Innocent men died while serving their country and Aymo died by his own side. Not only did Aymo died, but Henry started firing at other Italian soldiers who tried to run away. When Henry joined the battle police relief he felt obligated to shoot the sergeant because the title of being Lieutenant and felt superior. Chapter
XXX informed us on the messiness of war and the pure confusion on the battlefield. During this chapter, Italian soldiers fired at other Italians because that’s how horrible it was. I believe this part of the novel connects with futility because the Italian soldiers’ deaths are pointless because they died from their own side. In the end of the chapter, Henry left the battle because he doesn’t care about the war and he’s not even Italian. All he wants is to see Catherine. Henry doesn’t care about the war because he finds it pointless and he doesn’t see the true horror of it. I believe Henry is blind when it comes to the war until he is in battle and experiences the terror. One reason why Henry finds the war useless is because in the beginning of the book he was eating cheese and was handed an award for eating cheese and this shows him the absurdity of war.