Literature provides a special insight and gives the reader different views and aspects that are not provided by movies. In relation to war, it helps the readers get as close as they can to actually understanding the perils and atrocities of war by stepping into a person's shoes who has first hand experienced the war, giving us insight into inner emotions and feelings that that person felt at the time. John Hersey “A Noiseless Flash” tells the story of people who first hand experienced the atomic bombs. From America's viewpoint it is easy to say that the bombs were a necessity but when readers are put in the shoes of those who were actually victim of the attack, The answer becomes blurred as the true atrocities and horrors of the attack are exposed.…show more content… Fortunately, the existence of war literature like Walt Whitman’s journal “Specimen Days” exists to help us understand war for what it really is. In the journal, Whitman explains the terrors of the battlefields and hospitals of the civil war, and if writings like this never happened, future generations would never know the truth about war and only believe the over glorified and romanticised version that inspires young and foolish hopefuls to enlist and ultimately lead themselves to their inevitable physical and psychological
