War and Memory in Irene Zabytko?s ?Home Soil?, Bruce Weigl?s ?Song of N

Bullets flying through the air right over me, my knees are shaking, and my feet are numb. I see familiar faces exclusively around me dodging the explosives illuminating the air like lightning. Unfortunately, numerous familiar faces seem to disappear into the trenches. I try to run from the noise, but my mind keeps do me to re-illustrate the painful memories left behind. The three narratives Home Soil by Irene Zabytko, Song of Napalm by Bruce Weigl, and Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen all have the same feelings of war and memory, although not everyone experiences the same war. Zabytko, Weigl, and Owen used shifting beats, dramatic descriptions, and intense, painful images, to convince us that the horror of war far outweighs the devoted awareness of those who fantasize war and the memories that adjudge it. In the story Home Soil by Irene Zabytko, the reader is enlightened about a boy who was mentally and emotionally drained from the horrifying experiences of war. The return in the story knows exactly what the boy is going through, but he cannot help him, because everyone encounters his or her own recollection of war. When their faces are contorted from sucking the cigarette, at that place is an unmistakable shadow of vulnerability and fear of living. That gesture and stance are more eloquent than the blood and guts war stories men spew over their beers (Zabytko 492). The father, as a young man, was forced to reenact some of the same obligations, yet the father has learne...