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This 3 page paper discusses the book “The Line” by Arch and Martin Flanagan and considers the statement: “It is not the conflict that is important but how people respond to it that matters.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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project of laying the Thai-Burma Railway ("the line"). When he returned home, he never spoke of his experiences to his son Martin, although his wife knew what he had suffered.
This paper considers the idea that its not conflict that matters as much as how people respond to it. Discussion If people know the Thai-Burma Railway at all, its probably
as the rail line that crosses the "Bridge on the River Kwai," the classic 1957 film by David Lean. The brutality that the prisoners endured in the film, which was
based on a real incident (Bridge-River Kwai), is an introduction to conditions in the jungle. That brutality and the horrible conditions the prisoners endured left their mark on the men,
who came back from the war irrevocably changed. This of course can be said of almost any conflict, but what makes this different is the father/son book that came out
of it. The Line is a memoir by Arch Flanagan about his experiences in the jungle; his son Martin, who is a journalist, added additional material. Martins description of
the process gives us a way to consider how Arch responded to the conflict; and also, another conflict: that between the two men, one of whom is reluctant to talk
and the other who is struggling to understand. Its probably true to say that unless one has been in combat, or been held prisoner, he or she can never
really understand what its like. We know from whats been written about the book that Arch never talked about his experiences as a prisoner to his family. We can speculate
that he wanted to spare them the horror of hearing what it was really like; we can also speculate that it was simply too painful for him to keep reliving
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