War as Destructive to Humanity & Human Relationships

The father has gone or is going insane from the pressures of war, from having lost his land and livelihood, from hatred of the enemy, from stressful to swan those who depend upon him, and from a growing despair. He has a revolver and comes to regularly threaten his family and the protagonist with death by bullet if he is pushed too far by these miscellaneous pressures. The protagonist quickly sees what will be necessary to arrive in this chaos caused by the war in the pith easterly. Kanafani writes:

As I left-hand(a)-hand(a) the house behind, I left my childhood behind too. . . . Things had reached the point where the only solution was a bullet in the head of each one of us. So we must take care to behave suitably in all that we did, not asking for something to eat even when we were hungry. . . . (141).

The claims of those who support war, or "just" war, or those who champion the bravery of heroes in war, or those who argue that the war in the Middle East is a war which will bring a bust future for children, are all rebuked by Kanafani's story of this boy who learns to kill himself emotionally and psychologically in order to survive. The chromatic of the final line of the story, "dried-up and shrivelled," is an apt and tragic simile for the death of the soul of a child because of the terrible fruits of war.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "The Return" stands in contrast to the story by Kanafani. Kanafani portrays a family driven from their

dwelling by war. Thiong'o portrays a man coming home to his settlement later having spent a long period in a "detention camp" created to keep prisoners of war. He has now been freed and comes home to find his village intact, his family still alive, except his wife missing. She has left with a rival who has impregnated her after telling her and the others in his family and village that he was dead.

In response to this terrible news, the protagonist, Kamau, goes to the river to drown himself, but changes his mind. However, one can hardly find much consolation in this change of mind at the last moment.

aft(prenominal) dropping into the river all "the little things that had so strangely reminded him of her," Kamau imagines to himself:

Jonathan deals with the upshot of war and its lawless & insecure circumstances in two commissions. First, he again counts his blessings and considers that the lost money is insignificant. Second, and more importantly, he invokes religion, or at least God, as a way to ease his pain, fear, and especially his helplessness in the face of the thieves:

By the end of the story, as in the previous two stories by Thiong'o and Kanafani, Achebe has illustrated how, once again, the survivor of war must kill a part of himself emotionally and psychologically in order to only if carry on living from day to day in a world ripped apart by war.

One cleverness argue that Jonathan has won a measure of wisdom from his despicable and helplessness, but, if so, it is a wisdom of fear, of rationalization, and perhaps of preparation for the next age the thieves come to threaten his family and take his money.

All of Jonathan's pitiful, and that of his family, is the result of a war which was certainly started by leaders who appealed to high principles in order to seduce the people into killing and being killed. Again, whatsoever the high principles invoked in the march to war, the fundamental result is the kindred here as in the other two stories--human suffering and the dehumaniz
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