War is something that is “made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.” (Smith p.166) The idea of patriotism consumed people. “She would have sent ten sons to the war, as freely as she sent one daughter.”(Alcott p.12). This was the way parents felt about their children going off to war. The idea of being a hero or having a hero for a child was so overpowering that many did not take note to what the war really was like. Their own children were their contribution to the cause. They did not want to listen to your misfortune, they wanted heroes that would encourage the youth to keep fighting. They didn’t want to know that “during prolonged shelling, [he] often had to restrain [himself] and fight back a wild, inexorable
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Not So Quiet, Hospital Sketches, and Tea are all works that are giving insight to how women experience war and its effects. Not So Quiet and Tea do not have title chapters that transition you through the chapters, with a small insight into what the chapter is about. It is just a steady flow through each. Where Hospital Sketches does in fact have chapter titles but they are all very simple. A Day, A Night, Off Duty, are all very soft spoken chapter titles. Then you have With the Old Breed, the one work that is based off the experience of a man has such harsh chapter titles. Assault into Hell, Of Mud and Maggots, Another Amphibious Assault, Brave Men Lost, all of With the Old Breed has chapter titles that are harsh and so much stronger. From the very start the book about a man’s experience is so much more vocal about the type of experience he had. The transition between those chapters is much colder and it lets the reader know exactly where the sequence is heading. Whereas the three different works on women have an easy somewhat unknown and more feminine transition between each chapter that gives you little to no insight as to where the chapter is going. Which highlights Sjoberg’s points about how we cannot fully grasp women in war because there is little known about it due to the suppression of women especially when attempting to express views of
Not So Quiet, Hospital Sketches, and Tea are all works that are giving insight to how women experience war and its effects. Not So Quiet and Tea do not have title chapters that transition you through the chapters, with a small insight into what the chapter is about. It is just a steady flow through each. Where Hospital Sketches does in fact have chapter titles but they are all very simple. A Day, A Night, Off Duty, are all very soft spoken chapter titles. Then you have With the Old Breed, the one work that is based off the experience of a man has such harsh chapter titles. Assault into Hell, Of Mud and Maggots, Another Amphibious Assault, Brave Men Lost, all of With the Old Breed has chapter titles that are harsh and so much stronger. From the very start the book about a man’s experience is so much more vocal about the type of experience he had. The transition between those chapters is much colder and it lets the reader know exactly where the sequence is heading. Whereas the three different works on women have an easy somewhat unknown and more feminine transition between each chapter that gives you little to no insight as to where the chapter is going. Which highlights Sjoberg’s points about how we cannot fully grasp women in war because there is little known about it due to the suppression of women especially when attempting to express views of