The Horrors Of War Analysis

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The Horrors of War Essay by Whitt Ward
The horrors of war are very evident in this book, and this book makes you realize what `war back then was really like, and just how far we have come since then.
One example of the horrors of war in Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen is when Charley is running down the meadow, and one of his comrades who is with him gets his head taken off by a cannonball that then hits a horse in the stomach, and after that the horse gets caught up in his intestines and trips. Now if you can just imagine that you can see how that might make someone, in this case Charley have at least some sort of PTSD.
Now just seeing that one event might give you PTSD, but unfortunately that is not the only horrific event that Charley saw during …show more content…
Charley was fighting against the rebels, and he was running through the meadow clubbing and stabbing people with his gun and bayonet. After Charley was one of the only people left, he looked at himself, and saw that he was covered with blood. It was so bad that Charley thought that he was wounded, and was sent to the surgeon. The surgeon told him that he was fine, and then Charley had to do one of the most gruesome and disgusting things in the whole book. The surgeon who Charley went to said that he couldn’t work with his hands being so cold. He looked over to a pile of dead bodies, and told him and another guy to go get them, and make a wind break out of their dead bodies.
After everything is all said and done at the end of the story you can see signs that the war has had a toll on Charley, and the story ends with Charley going to a picnic with a Confederate revolver that he picked up in battle. Hinting that Charley is either thinking about or, going to commit suicide. In the end you can see how going to a war can affect a simple minded young man, and turn him into a mentally aged veteran with

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