Going To War Essay

Furthermore, people tend to believe everything they hear even if it’s a complete lie. The truth is sometimes terrifying to perceive but for some it’s better than living happily with a lie than just suffering with the truth. People tend to say war stories that they’ve heard from others just to make an impression on different individuals. In society, we don’t take into consideration what people have gone through in an actual war. Young soldiers ending up dead the first days because they don’t know anything about the battlefield. But the worse part is ending up with many soldiers’ dead. Going to war makes an individual a better person because they are fighting for their country but at the same time it takes their lives away. According to the story, the author states “War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love.
War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead” which shows how O’Brien is conveying a message that war is not always amazing because the meaning of war in societies eyes changed due to many lies and falsehood (O’Brien 59). The author’s main points
In the story “My Parents’ Bedroom” is different from the other two because Akpan made the narrator to be a nine-year-old girl. The viewpoint of the young girl who her name was Monique is completely different because it shows how the mind is so pure that she can’t understand anything that’s happening around her. During the Rwanda war where the story took place, there were many tragic things happening to young adults, especially female. For example, women getting raped regarding their age, and not being able to speak up about it, because they could get killed and tortured. According to the story, the author