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This 3 page paper uses Luigi Pirandello’s short story “War” to argue that children without siblings should not be exempt from serving in combat. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and short stories as well. This paper uses his short story War as a basis for the argument that children without siblings should not be exempt from combat duty for
that reason. Discussion In his story, Pirandello introduces the reader to a number of parents who are traveling together by chance. Each of them represents a different situation: one couple
has just sent their only son to war; one couple has a number of sons already at the front; and one man has already had his son killed in action
(Pirandello). When the couple that has just sent their son away explains their situation, everyone else discusses it as well, giving the reader a chance to listen to all the
viewpoints. The parents who have only one child believe that they are suffering more than anyone else, because if he is killed, they will have no children left. But the
others decry this attitude, demanding to know if its possible to love one child more than another, and concluding that its not, that parents love all their children equally. That
being the case, the loss of one, or two, or ten for that matter, is equally painful. The real "kicker" comes at the end of the story, because the man
whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that when sons die young, they miss the disillusion, bitterness and difficulties that
life presents (Pirandello). When they die in war in particular, he argues, they die for something they believe in, their country; his own son, he says, wrote him that he
was happy to die for this cause (Pirandello). Then the woman asks, "Then...is your son really dead?" (Pirandello). And the man, who all along has been speaking calmly about his
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