With The Old Breed Analysis

Eugene Bondurant Sledge was a United States Marine, who fought in World War II. During this time Sledge was attending Georgia Institute of Technology but left to fight at the battle of Okinawa in 1945. Soon after the battle ended Sledge moved to Alabama and begin to write “With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa”. The memoir included the tragic memories and disturbing experiences Sledge in accounted during World War II.
Sledge’s most distressing aspects of combat are the dead marine corpses surrounding him and the nightmares that nighttime brings. Sledge and his foxhole mate take turns keeping cover, while one sleeps the other stays on the look-out for any potential danger. Although, for Sledge he does not receive much throughout the night. Moments when he was about to sleep in the muddy, cold rain he dreamed of the corpses of Marines. At night he dreams of Marines rising from the dead, silently roaming the area. What agonizes him the most is that he is not able to help them. His nights are sleepless with nightmares of being hunted by the dead corpses of his fallen comrades.
All corpses are placed and position throughout the terrain, and it is also important to know their location because of infiltrating Japanese. One marine corpses in
His grandmother told him stories of how elves made water babies which were little splashes like rain drops similar to the raindrops around the bullfrog. Sledge compares this memory to the current situation he has put himself in. As his stares aimless all day at the green corpse in the carters, they remind him of the green bullfrogs he watch as a child. Only this time the raindrops don’t remind him of water babies but of little monsters, dancing around the corpses. The war turned the vivid tranquil and peaceful memory into a disturbing image. With not much to do but sit in his foxhole, the war being to take over his