PTSD In Farewell To Manzanar And Behind Bars

War has always been terrifying and results in catastrophic effects for every person involved civilian or otherwise. Mental illness is one of the worst effects and it cripples people, one of the biggest illnesses is PTSD. PTSD is post traumatic stress disorder and often happens to soldiers and civilians who are in the direct line of fire because of the war. These civilians are usually being persecuted for example the Jewish during the Holocaust. War is a devastating occurrence that takes millions of lives and has a lasting effect on every person that it touches; Unbroken, Night by Eliezer Wiesel, Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and “Behind Bars, Vets With PTSD Face a New War Zone With Little Support” all

The text states, “..how Papa’s life could end at a place like Manzanar. I didn’t die there but things finished off for him there..”(Houston). The father was affected for the rest of his life, he was no longer able to live. It was because of a war that the man did not even fight in, but he had lost his dignity, pride things that people often lose in war. People similarly to Jeanne’s father leave war broken down and able to live like before. Another example of this is in “Behind Bars, Vets With PTSD Face a New War Zone With Little Support”, in which a veteran in prison, can not heal from a traumatic war because he is having trouble acclimating into society. Lawrence states,

Such as in Night which showed how in WWII the Jews faced watching each other dying and had to live in the constant fear of persecution. Eliezer states, “..three victims in chairs and-one of them the little servent the sad eyed angel..”(Wiesel). The sad eyed angel is often perceived as the death of innocence and children, and it can be used to show the same about war. War killed this child and traumatized this man because of this horrid ordeal. It shows the inhumanity of war, how it takes inncocense during war, and this was a moment in the war in which people were trapped. For example, Unbroken shows the pain that Louise went through when he was stuck at sea after the plane that his crew was using malfunctioned. The author states, “The men’s bodies were poked with salt sore, and their lips were so so swollen that they pressed into their nostrils amd chins..”(Unbroken) The soldiers were on the plane to fight as a soldier and this brought catastrophia on them. Further showing the torture that these men had to go through, and also bringing to the light that they were is such pain and that it was all because of the war. This is showing how the war affects soldiers and how they is these circumstances are put into deadly positions that often lead to them having to experience such devastating occurrences. People lose their innocence in war and they lose their