In Our Redeployment
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway along with Redeployment by Phil Klay, both discuss the truth of war that connects to their readers in a special way. Each novel, with its own set of short stories describes the tragedy, tasks, and emotional toll war takes on the life of its veterans and civilians. This is shared through both author’s unique indirect style of writing. Klay and Hemingway focus on the depiction of war in another light by using the art of omission, hoping to connect the readers to the reality of what they’ve faced through the characters in the story. Hemingway’s unique style focused in on the discussion of personal stories and war legends that were told in a blunt manner. In his writing he brings the tales to …show more content…
This book shows great value as it was based off Phil Klay’s deployment in the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Klay describes himself as a character in the book that plays a soldier responsible for shooting dogs that are eating the corpses of the bodies left on the battlefield. He decides to return home to Suburbia where he finds out his life is forever distorted by what he saw. He tries his hardest to go back to the person he was before the war had changed him and can’t seem to understand how individuals participate in everyday life without acknowledging what was going on or what he’d done for their freedom while in …show more content…
“Agamben speaks of the difference between men and animals being that animals are in thrall to stimuli. He describes experiments where scientists give a worker bee a source of nectar. As it imbibes, they cut away its abdomen, so that instead of filling the bee up, the nectar falls out through the wound in a trickle that pours as fast as the bee drinks. You’d think the bee might change its behavior in response, but it doesn’t. It keeps happily sucking away at the nectar and will continue indefinitely, enthralled by one stimulus—the presence of nectar—until released by another—the sensation of satiety. But that second stimulus never comes—the wound keeps the bee drinking until it finally starves.”
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway along with Redeployment by Phil Klay, both discuss the truth of war that connects to their readers in a special way. Each novel, with its own set of short stories describes the tragedy, tasks, and emotional toll war takes on the life of its veterans and civilians. This is shared through both author’s unique indirect style of writing. Klay and Hemingway focus on the depiction of war in another light by using the art of omission, hoping to connect the readers to the reality of what they’ve faced through the characters in the story. Hemingway’s unique style focused in on the discussion of personal stories and war legends that were told in a blunt manner. In his writing he brings the tales to …show more content…
This book shows great value as it was based off Phil Klay’s deployment in the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Klay describes himself as a character in the book that plays a soldier responsible for shooting dogs that are eating the corpses of the bodies left on the battlefield. He decides to return home to Suburbia where he finds out his life is forever distorted by what he saw. He tries his hardest to go back to the person he was before the war had changed him and can’t seem to understand how individuals participate in everyday life without acknowledging what was going on or what he’d done for their freedom while in …show more content…
“Agamben speaks of the difference between men and animals being that animals are in thrall to stimuli. He describes experiments where scientists give a worker bee a source of nectar. As it imbibes, they cut away its abdomen, so that instead of filling the bee up, the nectar falls out through the wound in a trickle that pours as fast as the bee drinks. You’d think the bee might change its behavior in response, but it doesn’t. It keeps happily sucking away at the nectar and will continue indefinitely, enthralled by one stimulus—the presence of nectar—until released by another—the sensation of satiety. But that second stimulus never comes—the wound keeps the bee drinking until it finally starves.”