A Journey Taken With My Son Analysis

Often time, wars are believed and seen as a mean to defend the home nation from physical catastrophe of foreign land and soldiers are praised and honored for their sacrifice. Not often enough do the common people take the time to scrape the surface with sayings like “thank you for your time” to look at the understanding that even though a war “makes men” and unites them, Hynes says that it isolates and cuts them off from other people. We are also controlled into believing that we understand exactly how a soldier feels from what the media broadcast to us, and then we take that false understanding and channels it to a way that we think may help soldiers deal with their traumas or past. The truth that the media provide has been filtered out enough …show more content…
Brian Turner’s poem At Lowe’s Home Improvement Center describes how a simple, everyday setting can strike a reminder of how dreadful a war is. Turner’s poem also look at the idea of how small of a topic the nation portrays war such as which landscaping magazine to get or which stone marble best suit the kitchen whereas oversee, lives are put on the line. Myrna Bein’s story, A Journey Taken with My Son gives the sense that war is a “timeless and universal grief” and describes how all mothers universally feel for their child risking their lives in doing something they have no answer or see an outcome for. I feel both of these selections alone help me understand more about the meaning of war along with the damage that it brings and that the everlasting ripples of wars reminds everyone that war is timeless. Not only is it timeless, but one must give more of themselves into reaching out to those that are involved and hear their stories or at the very least, use the abundant amount of resources around to overcome the ignorance that the norm has towards