Analysis Of War Is Organized Murder, And Nothing Else '

War is best described from the words of Harry Patch who was the last surviving soldier of WWI “War Is Organized Murder, And Nothing Else”. These words coming from a person who experienced what it means to be fighting in a war, not knowing if he will live another second speaks volumes. This idea of just how gruesome and costly war truly is, exemplified with pieces of writing like Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce, “To His Love” by Ivor Gurney, and The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien.

The Civil war the deadliest war in American History. This war was fought against the North and the South all Americans. The South wanted to keep its slaves and leave the union but the North objected slavery and eventually won the war. In Chickamauga, Ambrose Bierce shows us the just how bizarre and “real” war is through the method of point of view. Bierce choses a very unique way to show this idea by using a child’s point of view in a place that no child should ever be seen or have witnessed such events. But Bierce purposely does this to show just how “real” war is and how people never being in the situation are like this child,”Not all of this did the child note; it is what would have been noted by an elder observer; he saw

Being men, they were not terrible, though unfamiliarly clad. He moved among them freely, going from one to another and peering into their faces with childish curiosity.”