A powerful essay that still rings true today is “Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” by John Steinbeck. This essay opened my eyes to what war must really be like. Steinbeck explains the effect war has on a soldier. In this very descripted and informed essay he tells how the body can withstand extraordinary things. The circumstances of war, makes sleep seem like a sanctuary. Steinbeck believes that soldiers don’t take after war, simply because they can’t remember it. The body shuts things out due to illness, starvation, or fatigue. “In the dullness all kinds of emphases change. Even the instinct for self-preservation is dulled so that a man may do things which are called heroic when actually his whole fabric of reaction is changed.” The entire body is
