There was no music. Most of the hamlet had burned down, including her house, which was now smoke, and the girl danced with her eyes half closed, her feet bare. She was maybe fourteen. She had black hair and brown skin. "Why's she dancing?" Azar said. We searched through the wreckage but there wasn't much to find. Rat Kiley caught a chicken for dinner. Lt. Cross radioed up to the gunships and told them to go away. (129)
O'Brien is saying that war is confusing and hard to understand. Nobody really knows what's going on. They just do what they're told to do. There are no winners. Everybody loses something in war.
I agree with this because the soldiers in war are like robots, they just do what they are told and try not to think about it, and no one knows what that is like unless you've lived it just like O'Brien did.
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DeleteI agree because in the end one side might win, but really everyone loses something.
ReplyDeleteI agree many soilders just go fight in wars blind of what they are really there for.
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