Episode Of War

An Episode Of War by Stephen Crane, who was an American poet, novelist, and a short story writer, has three main messages that I found interesting in this story. The three messages are: we are hopeless of war and fighting, we are powerless when it comes to some certain events, and that our environment at times can’t be escapable. I’ll continue explaining my points and give reasoning throughout this essay.
One of the three messages are; that we are hopeless of war and fighting. In America, there are many conflicts and wars that we could have avoided with other countries. But, in some cases, we stuck our nose where it didn’t belong or didn’t even try to create a compromise. We don’t understand other countries cultures and if we did, or even by taking a second and talking to them, many wars could have been prevented and people wouldn’t have died. One of the reasons that the Civil War started was because of the debate of slavery. The whole thing could have been avoided in two ways: slavery was kept legal everywhere, or slavery was just banned everywhere. It’s wrong to treat others like that, my opinion is that slavery is wrong but at the same time if slavery was legal and you know that it is wrong, then just don’t own a slave, simple as that. It’s better to do what YOU want to do thank …show more content…
For example, when war does come, and no one can stop it then we have to keep our defenses up. But if there is a chance where we can avoid war, and avoid spending millions of dollars on artillery and having men and women killed in the line of battle, we should go with the safe way out. Or if you are shot in battle, you cannot help that. We can’t control everything as humans, there’s only so much we can control, ourselves. We cannot control others, but we can watch what we do and our own actions and try to talk to others about stuff, but ultimately the only man can’t control