War Is A Time Of Toleration In One Flew Over The Poo's

War is a time of desperation. Lives are lost, families destroyed, lifestyles and destinies are changed forever. Every selfish behavior and action is brought out, in an all out fight for life itself. Pat Carr, in her novella Leaving Gilead, follows Saranell, a young girl during the Civil War, as she, her mother, and their slave flee from the approaching war. They find in their small Arkansas community, countrymen, neighbors, and friends turn against each other when their own skin is threatened. War brings out the worst in people. Wartime brings desperation and takes bad characteristics to a forefront in a person. After attempting to trade silver tableware for food so that they wouldn't starve, Mr. Fisk ripped off Saranell and Renny by

While beginning to flee southward, Yankee soldiers encountered the Birdsongs, as they stayed at their neighbor’s home. The soldiers forced them to sell their horses, for a much lower price than they were worth, without even allowing them to negotiate. “‘We ain't stealing. Understand that we ain't taking your stock without pay.’ He looked from Renny to Saranell.’We're offering twenty U.S. greenbacks for every horse,missy, which seems to me a fair price.’ Ian Birdsong had paid three hundred dollars each for the matching bays, but Saranell didn't deign to say that”(Carr 112). The soldiers could have easily seen the value of the horses, and would've known that a southerner would have no place to spend the northern dollars. So in exchange for a form of transportation, trade and potentially food, they knowingly gave them essentially stationary. This was more than just cost, this was possible sentencing to death. Yet they did this without a thought, more concerned about themselves than their fellow Americans. The war had brought out the animal instincts of kill or be killed and take what you could get, under the civilized guise of ‘ain't taking without pay.’ Elie Wiesel went through similar experiences in his life in his story of Night. Being imprisoned in a Jewish internment camp during World War Two, Elie says of the guards, “The SS were running as