- In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag analyzes the way in which war is perceived and takes into account factors like sex, culture and social status. She goes on to say that war imagery is open to both interpretation and alteration. Sontag rejects the notion that war imagery will necessarily cause a rejection of war, instead saying that war is itself is everlasting.
- I think that the best representation of war images occurs in the line, “and the sound of the dead language– praised as key torchlight of the great dead…” This line portrays death and mourning and that is proof of great loss as to what occurred during the war. These descriptions are what the Jewish girl is trying to grasp as life. It’s the cruelties of life that she doesn’t want to believe is true.
- War through the eyes of a school girl is more than terrifying. Through any child or teenager in school. All they know is education and what they’re parents teach them. They are not usually taught war, unless necessary. To have it all happen, especially to family that is involved with war, is potentially traumatizing. When the author says, “memory says want to do it right? Don’t count on me.” she means that when it comes down to morals and what is right, we should make judgments based on present day norms and actions. Times change. Morally, historically, economically, and so on.
October 19th, 2015
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