Book Report On Tribe By Sebastian Junger

There are multiple scenarios in which a society can collapse, communities will fall, and new ones will be formed. A bombing inside of a city is one such scenario that can cause a disruption within society. The book Tribe by Sebastian Junger explains multiple situations about how communities can change and how that change will impact the people within the community. Junger also examines the lives of people even after they are out of the conflicts that they were in before, such as victims of PTSD. Tribe does not focus on only one community because every person is part of a multitude of communities based off his/her beliefs. There are also times where individuals are forced into a community and unable to change it without major consequences.

The book specifically delivers the standpoint of the people that were forced into the bomb shelters. Junger explains that “Conduct was so good in the shelters that volunteers never even had to summon the police to maintain order” (Junger 46). This research from Junger shows that the bomb shelters were not out of order and they seemed to bring the people together and resort in a community rather than ending up with a separated community with violence and crime. In addition, Junger also did research on the bombings in London. His investigation declares “Eight million men, women, and children in Greater London endured the kind of aerial bombardment that even soldiers are rarely subjected to” (Junger 46). This claim shows that the civilians were in worse conditions in the bomb shelters compared to the conditions of the actual soldiers fighting in the war. Being able to keep a stable community without any violence or crime and having no need for any policing throughout the shelters shows how easily the civilians adapted to the new life that included the

His investigations were more concerned about the British and the German’s governments trying to resolve the struggles of the people rather than the people located there resolving the problems themselves. Claasen’s research found “the British did pass the Defence Regulation of 1939 (covering such things as censorship, looting, and blackouts), which put the domestic society on a war footing” (Claasen 108). The British government had to enact in some way to stop the lootings that were part of the war. The government decided to put new regulations in place to try and prevent some of the crimes that war had driven people to do. However, the German government was almost the opposite. The German media was censored, and the civilians were severely intimidated by the threats of being put into concentration camps. Although, even though the two nation’s punishments were different, the experiences of the bombings for the people residing in bomb shelters or evacuating were about the same. Claasen also found that “Britain and Germany bombed one another, with few restrictions, in an attempt to destroy military and economic capacity and to break civilian morale” (Claasen 110). This finding brings the point that civilian morale is important to the outcome of the war. Both nations tried to keep the civilian morale high, to keep up with production and to