The Third Effect of War
Throughout human evolution are species has always been at war with each other. This drive to kill and conquer can be caused from many different factors but the end is always the same, which is the physical and emotional effects left on the population. The physical effects include: death of people, maiming, physical loss of property, and economic loss. The emotional effects include: mental loss of family, mental feeling felt after war, and the emotional loss of everything around them. These effects can be traced back to the very first war and can being seen in the current conflicts we see ourselves today.
Throughout history many authors have written books on these effects. Some of these books are: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse …show more content…
Doung Thu Huongs Novel Without A Name has a great example on this effect. Huong writes about how the Vietnamese are forced to provide food and resources to the soldiers to fighting for the communist idea. This causes a huge malnourishment and poverty issues in the outlying villages. Ishmael Beah also talks about this in A long way gone when the rebels or army go villages and demand supplies. If the village is unable to provide supplies they would kill entire villages and take what was needed. The economic problems cause during and after war leaves scars due to the huge economic loss of the in people which stays in the culture for generations.
Not all the wounds that accrue from the third effects of war are physical. Even though the physical effects are easy to see, the most damaging effects are the ones that attack the mental or emotional side. The most common emotional effects that is seen after war is emotional feeling of loss. This effect includes: loss of family, loss of money, loss of material items, or the loss on one’s mind. The direct loss of something is physical but how a person reacts is emotional, which will carry huge scars for a …show more content…
The mental damage from war is by far the worst that normally will follow you through life. When a brain is exposed to extreme stress or events, the mind will rewire itself to help cope. This rewiring can lead to symptoms like PTSD, suicide and severe depression. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five the main character Billy suffers mental conditions that occurred during his service in World War two. Because of this condition Billy thinks an alien race that goes by name of Tralfamador abducted him and granted Billy with the ability of time travel. During this time in history, PTSD was not diagnosed yet, but there was a condition called shell shock. This condition carried a lot of the same symptoms of PTSD but was overlook because the population thought it as having weak
Throughout human evolution are species has always been at war with each other. This drive to kill and conquer can be caused from many different factors but the end is always the same, which is the physical and emotional effects left on the population. The physical effects include: death of people, maiming, physical loss of property, and economic loss. The emotional effects include: mental loss of family, mental feeling felt after war, and the emotional loss of everything around them. These effects can be traced back to the very first war and can being seen in the current conflicts we see ourselves today.
Throughout history many authors have written books on these effects. Some of these books are: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse …show more content…
Doung Thu Huongs Novel Without A Name has a great example on this effect. Huong writes about how the Vietnamese are forced to provide food and resources to the soldiers to fighting for the communist idea. This causes a huge malnourishment and poverty issues in the outlying villages. Ishmael Beah also talks about this in A long way gone when the rebels or army go villages and demand supplies. If the village is unable to provide supplies they would kill entire villages and take what was needed. The economic problems cause during and after war leaves scars due to the huge economic loss of the in people which stays in the culture for generations.
Not all the wounds that accrue from the third effects of war are physical. Even though the physical effects are easy to see, the most damaging effects are the ones that attack the mental or emotional side. The most common emotional effects that is seen after war is emotional feeling of loss. This effect includes: loss of family, loss of money, loss of material items, or the loss on one’s mind. The direct loss of something is physical but how a person reacts is emotional, which will carry huge scars for a …show more content…
The mental damage from war is by far the worst that normally will follow you through life. When a brain is exposed to extreme stress or events, the mind will rewire itself to help cope. This rewiring can lead to symptoms like PTSD, suicide and severe depression. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five the main character Billy suffers mental conditions that occurred during his service in World War two. Because of this condition Billy thinks an alien race that goes by name of Tralfamador abducted him and granted Billy with the ability of time travel. During this time in history, PTSD was not diagnosed yet, but there was a condition called shell shock. This condition carried a lot of the same symptoms of PTSD but was overlook because the population thought it as having weak