War Is War in Tim Essay

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He lay in the center of a red clay trail near the village of My Khe. His jaw was in his throat. His one eye was shut, the other eye had a star shaped hole. I killed him." (O'Brien 180). Very similar observations can be made about Turner's poetry. Turner uses highly descriptive language when he expresses his view of "bone and gristle and flesh," the clavicle-snapped wish" and, "the aorta's opened valves" in Here, Bullet. These images are immensely disturbing yet at the same time, surprisingly lyrical. The ability to combine these two opposing sentiments into a seamless flow of expression is a rare talent; one that both O'Brien and Turner possess in abundance.

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While O'Brien chooses to express his experiences through prose, and Turner chooses poetry as his medium, the sentiments being relayed are remarkably similar. Each of the literary works discussed here demonstrates that it does not matter where a war is being fought, or when, or by whom. The fact remains, as O'Brien asserts, that "A true war story is never moral" (O'Brien 68). War is, by its very nature, barbaric, treacherous and immoral.

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Whether you are fighting in Vietnam, Iraq or Mars, "It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in a desert of irrevocable desolation." (Turner, Sadiq, 2005).

Yet as both Turner and O'Brien illustrate through their works, war can turn a soul cold and a heart to stone because that is the only way that human beings, who are basically kind, can deal with the atrocities they are experiencing and committing. Ultimately then, the parallel significance of the Things They Carried, the Man I Killed, Here, Bullet and Sadiq, lies in the fact that both O'Brien and Turner demonstrate that not until one realizes the true depth of disillusionment, both in the conflicts surrounding him, and in those that exist internally, can true peace be genuinely achieved.

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