Most recent public comments by Thuy Ngan Le https://nowcomment.com/users/16326 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=385002 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=385002 I often do not read war related literature outside of class. So the majority of my knowledge of war lit. comes from in-class requirement. I'm very aware of the fact that they're not the only war literature out there. However, they are some of the most influential ones, a reason why our education requires us to read it. Often these books come with the common "horrors" from the war and its influence on one's psyche- of having to kill, having to face cruelty, loss (whether of love ones, of pride, of moral), powerlessness, etc... And they often revolves around death. Death is a fascinating thing to talk about. It's mysterious. It's seductive. The closer it is, the more it grabs our attention as readers. The moment we think of war, we think of death. We probably even view war lit as a part of the beauty of death, as a way to figure out its reasoning that we over analyze repeatedly with the "killing bad", "killing good", "justified/unjustified actions". War lit. take us all the way to the war front to take a small glimpse of it so that we can experience that thrill and that mystery of the cruelty of war. And we forget that war takes on many different forms without the "gore" away from the war front itself without the "fun" Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:48:26 -0400