Tribe On Homecoming And Belonging Analysis

Tribe: on Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger is about not only society, but also community. It is a testament to our own human nature, our desire to belong, to leave our mark on the world and find our meaning. Tribe explores native as well as modern societies. It covers topics such as war, tragedy, and loyalty. One specific community mentioned is veterans. Junger describes their sacrifice, pain, and life after deployment. Junger represents this community very well. The book Fields of Combat: Understanding PTSD among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, by Erin P. Finley outlines interviews with returned veterans and discusses veteran’s lives and their transitions back into society after the war. Dan L. Longo’s medical journal on “Post

During their deployment, soldiers develop coping mechanisms for their survival. Erin P. Finley states, “What I had was classic short-term PTSD. From an evolutionary perspective, it’s exactly the response you want to have when your life is in danger: you want to be vigilant, you want to avoid situations where you are not in control, you want to react to strange noises, you want to sleep lightly and wake easily, you want to have flashbacks and nightmares that remind you of specific threats to your life, and you want to be, by turns, angry and depressed. Anger keeps you ready to fight, and depression keeps you from being too active and putting yourself in more danger. Flashbacks also serve to remind you of the danger that’s out there—a “highly efficient single-event survival-learning mechanism,” as one researcher termed it. All humans react to trauma in this way, and most mammals do as well. It may be unpleasant, but it’s preferable to getting killed.” These men are seeing their friends die and having shots fired all around them, and had to learn how to cope in the moment. Not only have they just gone through the unimaginable, a deployment, they are coming home to a place with severe lack of understanding. People assume soldiers return from war and everything just goes back to normal, which is not the case. Junger states, “Because modern society has almost completely eliminated trauma and violence from everyday life, anyone who does suffer those things is deemed to be extraordinarily unfortunate. This gives people access to sympathy and resources but also creates an identity of victimhood that can delay recovery.” There is a lack of sensitivity in society, especially in the newer generations because adults are heavily sheltering their children in order to ‘protect them’ as they say. In reality these children end up being unprepared for the real world and uneducated on important topics. The media often glamorizes