When it comes to reading, I am one to judge a book by its cover and to be honest, War by Sebastian Junger didn’t catch my eye nor did the blurb captivate me. Ordinarily, it’s not a book that I would pick up and choose to read. All I was thinking was ‘great, a book on war, this is going to be a snooze and be like a research book’ and especially as it focuses on the war that happened in Afghanistan, I just assumed it would talk about the strategies taking place in the war, statistics and why it was happening etc. However, needless to say, I still had to read it and it wasn’t what I thought it would be. What really intrigued me at first, before actually reading it, was the fact that the book is separated into three parts, ‘Fear’, ‘Killing’ and
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Even though the syntax and diction Junger uses in War is rather simplistic as a whole, it still didn’t make it easy for me to entirely understand what was going on in it. His writing style isn’t one that I enjoy and can follow. Moreover, with his constant use of flashbacks, it made it confusing at times as it was rather jumpy, going from one event to another. This also made it challenging for me to stay focused and it was difficult to see the change in the soldiers as time passed; I couldn’t properly follow the story. The book wasn’t in chronological order and because of this, it was difficult to differentiate between each event. In a way I guess war can be like that, your usual day isn’t a so called ‘normal’ day, you don’t have sit down meals with your loved ones three times a day at the same time every day. I don’t know if Junger was trying to illustrate this, but that is how I analysed it as. The schedule of a platoon is not predictable, as there are endless hours of boredom until something suddenly happens; one can die at any second, “Pretty much everyone who died in this valley died when they least expected it, usually shot in the head or throat, so it could make the men weird about the most mundane tasks.” Someone could have been there for less than a week and already have
Even though the syntax and diction Junger uses in War is rather simplistic as a whole, it still didn’t make it easy for me to entirely understand what was going on in it. His writing style isn’t one that I enjoy and can follow. Moreover, with his constant use of flashbacks, it made it confusing at times as it was rather jumpy, going from one event to another. This also made it challenging for me to stay focused and it was difficult to see the change in the soldiers as time passed; I couldn’t properly follow the story. The book wasn’t in chronological order and because of this, it was difficult to differentiate between each event. In a way I guess war can be like that, your usual day isn’t a so called ‘normal’ day, you don’t have sit down meals with your loved ones three times a day at the same time every day. I don’t know if Junger was trying to illustrate this, but that is how I analysed it as. The schedule of a platoon is not predictable, as there are endless hours of boredom until something suddenly happens; one can die at any second, “Pretty much everyone who died in this valley died when they least expected it, usually shot in the head or throat, so it could make the men weird about the most mundane tasks.” Someone could have been there for less than a week and already have