Caides: A Short Story

In his writing, he stated that war is intrinsically vast, communal (or political) and violent. It is an actual, widespread and deliberate armed conflict between political communities, motivated by a sharp disagreement over governance” (p.135)

As a result , he is tired of fighting ,and is not focused on war anymore. In his final quote, “ It is the young men who say yes or no,” he throughly explains how the old men have passed , and it is now the the young men’s time to step up and become leaders. Finally , this is how he is convincing the audience that his tribe is freezing to death ,and none of his children can be found.

During the story, the first conflict is between the two panthers and the child. In summary, the two panthers were going to hunt for food for their cubs when all of a sudden they heard a distant cry (page 83). The panthers changed their path with intentions of killing the child and bringing it back for the cubs. As a result, the audience feel bad for the child because if the panthers get to it, they will win with no doubt about it. The second conflict is between the settler that has a gun and the two panthers. To begin, the settler is walking back from work when suddenly he hears a child crying. He tries to contemplate whether or not to turn around and go check if everything is okay. He finally turns around and discovers that the child was crying because the panthers were face-to-face with the child. Therefore, the settler shot the panthers to save the child. Because of this, the readers feel bad for the panthers and the cubs since the cubs will obviously die from starvation without their parents. Thus, the diverse one-sided conflicts bring out sympathy towards the

The fighting and destructive powers of humans have been on display since prehistoric times with many tribes constantly finding ways to fight and kill one another for their own benefit. This long-term fighting shows that human beings have a natural instinct towards violence and conflict between one another. Even after thousands of years, it is safe to say that war never changes. Both The Iliad and The Things They Carried showed how human beings have a natural tendency towards superiority and conflict but do not have a proper way to cope with the emotional trauma that comes with it.

Peace has filled the lands, but only for so long, for blood will be spilled again.

They’d now reached the pond and paused. Joan turned toward Perceval. “I am so sorry about your family, Perceval. What a terrible thing for a child to go through. What where their names?”

“There appears to be some damage done. There are too many good leaders in the county to let that misunderstanding continue. Life’s too short. It’s about our lives.”

“We chased those Socs out of our territory.” “Useless,” I said. The words caught in my throat like thorns. “Fighting’s no good,” I couldn’t get through what I really wanted to say, that all the fights were the same, but with different people.

From the beginning of mankinds recorded history two things have always been present. They are the struggle for leadership within a chosen group of people who have decided to live together as a group and the wars they have waged to either maintain their dominance or to defend themselves from an agressor attempting to vanquish them and their beliefs. In both examples of the political leader and that of warfare, it is the civillian directly or indirectly, that has both control and no control over either unless they rise together to form a powerful enough voice that causes the leaders to change direction to alter the course of events.

“Hello,” he said. Clarisse barely heard him because she was staring at the singed pieces of his uniform. He cleared his throat. “You must be the new neighbor.”

Choul, forced to move out of his village in South Sudan, proves that he believes in a better future for himself. Choul was seven years old at the time that the civil war began between President Salva Kiir and the former vice president Riek Machar. The new country of South Sudan dissolved into fighting with cruel tactics such as tearing villages apart, taking children to turn them into soldiers, and raping women. When the fighting came to Choul’s village, he and his grandmother remember, “[w]omen were raped and men were murdered. His father and grandfather were herded into a small hut and burned alive.” (Choul 2). The fighting pressured Choul and his grandmother to migrate out of their home to escape the same horrible fate. He was forced

Battles, War, bloodshed etc.. would all not happen if there wasn’t conflict. Conflict can happen for multiple reasons like establishing dominance, resources and desire to have more power but what really starts a war is when there is ethnic conflict. People believe in their cause to protect or defend their culture which is who they are and likely most people they know. My personal ancestry has suffered from this and endured through the holocaust. “From Two Worlds As a Keepsake”, also known as “Yerku Ashkharhic I Hishatak”, shows this ethnic conflict in a visual masterpiece.

As I wiped my shield clean of dried blood, I thought of the battle that my tribe had been in just the day before. The tribe that I belonged to, Wicca, and our rival tribe, Herefinna, have been fighting against each other for years, and this battle was just another of the many my people had fought in. Usually our tribe was defeated by Herefinna, but this battle was different than the others. A new generation of warriors, those that were my age, had been training for months, preparing for this war. We were tougher than the previous generation, and we trained harder than ever before.

“She was asking me my name and what year do I think it is, but she asked me this one question that really got me thinking, she asked me if I knew my purpose for being on this ship”.

The first conflict is the main character's inner conflict which is very clear to the reader. The narrator faced many obstacles in his life, he didn't know whether to stay beside his family under occupation or follow his friend to America _the green California to start a new life full of success , where he will not be in personal danger anymore , he can make more money and no longer be poor. The narrator was confused and didn't realize exactly what he felt. Thus, this feeling blunted his enthusiasm for fight. The inner struggle was resolved at the end as a result of his niece's noble and sacrificial act of bravery. The ill-defined feeling he felt which made his life empty finally became a giant deep when the narrator discovered that the daughter of his dead brother threw herself on top of her little brothers and sisters to protect them from bombs and flames and lost her leg from the thigh. At that moment he found something to live for among the ugly debris of Gaza. The narrator's last words showed us how Life had new meaning to him. "No, my friend, I won't come to Sacramento, and I have no regrets. No and nor will I finish what we began together in childhood, This obscure feeling that you had as you left Gaza, this small feeling must grow in to a giant deep within you (Ghassan Kanafani, 80 ) ". Another conflict in this was between the man and his society. The hard circumstances that