Wartime Genre Study
Wartime Genre Study: Questioning morality and dehumanization in war. -Thomas S In the genre of war, we see some truly impactful themes and takeaways. War stories like “The Things They Carried”, “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “The Lottery”. In general, we learn a few things from these stories, the fundamentals of war being bad, and unless you are part of the war it's hard to comprehend how bad it really can be. "The Lottery" teaches us about the vulnerability of a person as well as questioning tradition and mob mentality. The things they carried had similar themes of mob mentality, the idea of even the strongest being vulnerable, and war does not care who is a friend or your feelings. And lastly, an occurrence at owl creek bridge wants to make us question our morality, and realize how meaningless war is and how it's just an awful thing, no matter how hard you try you can't escape reality. I hope a reader of all of these stories can clearly isolate certain id...