Monday, July 26, 2010

A Seprate Peace (Leper)

It struck me at this moment the answer to what does fighting for your country mean, it means dieing a death that would soon be forgotten, dieing a death covered with glamor made to seem like you died a saint in a holy army. On army commercials they state"There's strong and the there's is army strong", but what of those people drawn in by false awe at the "brotherhood" and "peaceful smiles" of the army only to find out the bloody truth of what the army and war is really like, people like Leper. On page 9 where it says "perhaps varnish, along with everything else, had gone to war", though Gene is being witty he bring forth an interesting claim. Varnish is a shiny coating of preservation so in a way it's like a wolf in a sheep's mask meaning that the illusion of safty peace is gone ; a mask being pulled off. To wrap this statement up this means perhapses all the good left to go to war leaving a void of fear and ugly truths that is what made Leper go crazy his innocence being stripped away forcing his eyes open onto an ugly reality.

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