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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the issues of youth, identification, socialization, and tragedy in Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire -- an account of 1949's Mann Gulch fire. No additional sources cited.
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The Preface cited Maclean as have written that: "the problem of self-identity is not just a problem for the young. It is a problem all the time." (vii).
This quote is fundamental to Macleans portrayal of the young Smokejumpers that tragically died in the fire and the overall perceptions that led to the use of such young men
in this particular career. The young men who were described as Smokejumpers in Macleans work were US Forest Service workers who had to be physically fit and demonstrate
a capacity for physical exertion in order to be effective in their job. Airplanes were utilized to view potential devastation by forest fires, and the Smokejumper teams were brought
in to intervene and prevent the widespread destruction, ultimately reducing its movement and fuel until the fire could be extinguished. The Smokejumpers were a young outfit, "of necessity
young as individuals and barely started as an organization. As individuals, they would soon go the way of prizefighters--all washed up when their reflexes began to slow by fractions
of a second..." (31). It was evident that there was perceived value to the youth of this team and that this also supported the recruitment of at least two
very young members of the team. "For instance, of the fifteen who jumped on the Mann Gulch fire, twelve had been in the armed services and the other three
had been too young to enlist" (31). But over the course of time, the effectiveness of the Smokejumpers led to perceptions about the group as a whole and general socialization
based on their youth. Smokejumpers were taught pride and unity as firefighters, processes necessitated by the complexity of their jobs and in light of a definitive need for interdependence
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