Both Blithe and Sledge were given advice on how to cope. Whether the coping came from blocking those emotions, becoming void and instead of being human, being soldiers or from giving up hope, and assuming each day is your last. The nature of war was different for each soldier. Carl von Clausewitz once said “War is more than a mere chameleon that slightly adapts its characteristics to the given case. As a total phenomenon its dominant tendencies always make war a paradoxical trinity – composed of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity(...)”. This quote shows that all war is different. It has different circumstances like motives and duration, but shares some similar characteristics. The war may be different, but the advice doesn’t deviate. The
