The War Of War By Heidi Squier Kraft - 1853 Words

Many war novels are either written for or against the war. Throughout this class we have read many novels that were seen as anti-war but we also have read a novel that was pro war. There were many similarities and differences when it came to the different books. Such as the last book we read by Heidi Squier Kraft, Rule Number Two: Lessons I learned in a Combat Hospital, were quite different from the first 6 books we have read. This book was the only book we read that was for the war. All the others six books for against the war such as All Quiet on the Western Front, A Farewell to Arms, Goodbye, Darkness ,Slaughterhouse 5, The Things They Carried, and Redeployment. In these books readers can see that theses novels shared common perspectives and characteristics. Some book were memoirs and some were stories but all these books had one main purpose which was the war. Wars dating back to World war I to the recent Iraq war. These authors share their experiences and memories the best that they could in through these books. While reading these different war novels, these novels have expressed how the war made an impact not only through the people connected within the war but everyone else around them. First let s talk about the first six books that we read. All these books are seen as anti-war novels and told by men who took part in combat. They all share common perspectives and characteristics about the war, even though all their experiences were different. Such as, in one of