What Is The Theme Of Tribe By Benjamin Junger

In the excerpt “Tribe” by Sebastian Junger, he demonstrates how communities are being impacted by the bad things that people do. People in different communities struggle with compassion and staying connected, but they struggle with these problems in their own ways. In “Tribe”, Junger uses compare and contrast to show the disconnection between communities and he uses tone to demonstrate his urgency in replenishing the compassion back into communities. In Junger’s “Tribe” he compares a lot of the problems communities tend to have to show the amount of disconnection within the communities. He explains how the rich and the poor continue to separate and widen as an example to show how disconnected these communities really are. Towards the beginning

When he says “people live in racially segregated communities,” it shows how communities are starting to go back to the dark ages, where being racist was “OK” and where the rich towered over the poor. He also talks about the regular rampage shootings that continue to happen, but nobody seems to care because it just has a sense of normalcy. People are dying in these shootings; innocent people who have done nothing wrong, get injured or worse for no reason. These problems living in these communities are hurting the communities themselves and the people within. Junger also mentions how veterans tend to be a part of this particular group of violent people because of their depressed state of mind when they return home after battle. In the first paragraph Junger emphasizes, “It’s complete madness, and the veterans know this. In combat, soldiers all but ignore differences of race, religion, and politics with their platoon. It’s no wonder why many of them get so depressed when they come back home.” Junger illustrates how when soldiers are in combat, they don’t care about race or religion

He chooses to use the emotion of guilt to allow the audience to feel like they have been factor in rampage shootings or segregation, which then turns into something that they would want to change; or, audience could feel like they want to be more involved and therefore help in a nursing home with retired veterans or even have an all inclusive house party to break up a bit of the segregation in that community. In the middle of the first paragraph, Junger highlights, “To make matters worse, politicians occasionally accuse rivals of deliberately trying to harm their own country- a charge so destructive to a group unity that most past societies would probably have just punished it as a source of treason.” Junger portrays a very urgent tone because he goes into how certain issues such as harming one’s country, could be charged with treason in the earlier years. When he uses words such as “destructive,” “punished,” and “treason,” it makes the reader feel guilty by all the shootings and segregation that is occuring in our communities, and no one does anything to prevent them from happening. These words trigger a response in the reader because of the urgent tone the writer uses. Junger goes on to explain how because of these issues in communities, that America is “basically at war with itself.” In the second