Topic > War Book Analysis by Tim Obrien - 1384

War Is Hell Throughout history, humans have been unable to maintain peace and have always resorted to the inevitable state of war. War has changed the life of every person who has lived, and will continue to do so as man struggles to fight for the survival of the fittest. Millions of innocent people have literally been victimized by the idea of ​​war, and billions have seen their lives changed forever. Every day people watch films, read books and listen to reports of war in the media, but how can one ever truly understand what war is without being forced to take the lives of other human beings, while at the same time learning to cope with the conditions of life? , being in completely unfamiliar places and staring death in the face every day. There are many different healing aspects of war that can take a man and turn him into a completely different person. In the world we live in, the worst act a man can do is take the life of another human being. As gruesome and wrong as taking one's own life may seem, it has become a practice with which people involved in wars throughout the ages have become extremely familiar. Imagine being a typical twenty-year-old student, perhaps on the verge of getting married and starting a family, and three months later being forced to kill just so you can survive and return home. To go from having complete freedom to having orders and now having the freedom to commit what we consider one of the most serious crimes. Even if for some it is a surprising revolution, there are also those who see someone dying and simply consider it a number like any other, without even being gradual. A case of this situation would be: "You scrambled him, sorry, look at that, you did, you knocked him out like Shredded, fucking corn" (O'Brien 2). However, as this statement was recited, Tim, emotionless, stared blankly at the young man whose life he himself had just taken. As he looked at the young man's body he began to tell himself the story of the young man's life. "He was born, perhaps, in 1946 in the village of My Khe... He was not a communist. He was a citizen and a soldier." He continues to state: "He was not a fighter, his health was poor, his body small and frail.