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... In Philip Caputo’s “A rumor of War” we see several ways one person’s ideals can be weighed down and eventually crushed by reality. ... War is something we always hold as an ideal. ... “I had one of those rare flashes of insight: the heroic experience I sought was war; was, was the ultimate adventure: war, the ordinary man’s most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. ... The glory ended in “A Rumor of War” when the bodies had to be piled up and counted. ... ”(Caputo, Page 118) The glory of war leaves you when you no longer see the war as war, but when war becomes life. War allows you to be a hero, war grants you the opportunity to be something, but it also destroys you, a little at a time, from the inside out. ... Those who lose with war, die. ... Those who went off to war and lived the reality of the war had one goal: to live through it with as much of their body intact as possible. ... Reality of war is something that is never forgotten and always remembered when a door slams or a car back fires. ... With war comes the realization that death does not lurk in the future, but always in the present. ... As I read through this book, I noticed that he described death with very clear concise words that painted a full visual in my mind. ... Pushing people through the enemy lines hoping to gain some ground seems like a perfectly war-like attitude to have. ... To justify a war you have to have a cause that your men will stand behind. ... you become part of the “random arithmetic of war”(Caputo, Page 220). ... As Caputo put it in his last sentence of the book, “We had survived, and that was out only victory. ... A Rumor of War.
Approximate Word count = 1813
Approximate Pages = 7.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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