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The story follows a discussion between parents of soldiers in the First World War about how they deal with grief. [2] [3] The story covers topics of patriotism, grief, and the destructive nature of war. [4] [5] It is regarded by some as one of the greatest short stories of the Interwar period, along with Jean-Paul Sartre's The Wall. [6]
The book's title story first appeared in the literary magazine Granta. It was reprinted in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, an anthology of war fiction. Klay has stated that the process of writing the stories that became Redeployment involved years of meticulous research. [5]
The reader accompanies people full of enthusiasm and a willingness to sacrifice themselves into a war that brutalizes them to the extreme. Young men who love their parents and grow up with books, pictures and music become killing machines whose idealism is not long enough to cope with the bloody reality.
"Youth" depicts a young man's first journey to the Far East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim , Chance , and Heart of Darkness . The narrator's introduction suggests this is the first time, chronologically, the character Marlow appears in Conrad's works (the narrator comments that he thinks Marlow spells his ...
But during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it proved especially hard to maintain a sense of moral balance. These wars lacked the moral clarity of World War II, with its goal of unconditional surrender. Some troops chafed at being sent not to achieve military victory, but for nation-building (“As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down”). The ...
The stories' themes – of alienation, loss, grief, separation – continue the work Hemingway began with the vignettes, which include descriptions of acts of war, bullfighting and current events. The collection is known for its spare language and oblique depiction of emotion, through a style known as Hemingway's "theory of omission" ( iceberg ...
Mikhail Vasilyev said women should have more babies if they are sad about their sons going to war. An influential Orthodox priest said that Russian women worried about their sons dying in Ukraine ...
Younger’s case has progressed in the throes of a national culture war over gender-affirming care for minors. As of this year, 25 states have banned medical treatments on children who identify as ...