Cruelty Societies and individuals descend to such a low level of cruelty striving for fear, greed, and power. The guards of POW camps were exceptionally violent and in most cases, wanted to show the authority they had over prisoners. The bird, however, became drastically cruel due to feeling weak, powerless, and lonely. If one human can feel these things what is stopping others? Humanity is capable of committing inhumane acts against one another. Self pride caused violence and internal feelings that heavily contributed to the actions of immense cruelty. It was simple for societies and individuals to reach mortifying depths of barbarity. War has been one of the worst things in common world issues. World Wars have caused half of populations losses, people lying dead left and right. Because of this death never really came as an extreme surprise, Louie would witness his friends dying only to get back up and continue fighting the next day. Bodies as terrifying corpses littering the ground and POW camps creating a living and breathing fear among captured soldiers. Violence was a very well played game, and …show more content…
It’s not possible to compare death, but in the way it happens can. Being shot in the head or stomach is not anything like dying of old age in a peaceful sleep. Louie would witness death multiple times, “Everyone knew he (Brooks) was almost surely dying. No one spoke of it,” (Hillenbrand 106). Brooks had suffered from multiple bullet wounds. People died from either bombs, guns, starvation, beatings, or rape, all of the evil above. In Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand publishes the sight of a starved american soldier, “At a Japanese POW camp, this dead american was found near war’s end still standing, at a sink at which he was trying to drink. American soldiers and guerrillas went behind enemy lines to rescue the men at this camp, but they were too late. They found the bodies of 150 POW’s starved to death.” (Hillenbrand