Basic Training Of Pavlo Hummel Essay

In The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. The Vietnam Plays, Volume One, Slaughterhouse Five, and A Long Way Gone survival in war is portrayed from the ability to overcome extreme states of conflict and war through training, luck, and personal determination. All of these works tell the story of survival, though not all the protagonist survive. In The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. The Vietnam Plays, Volume One, The protagonist Pavlo Hummel is trained to survive even after the opening chapter starts

with a sense of hopeful optimism motivated by glory, bravado, or simply survival. In time, the horrors of war may leave them questioning their actions and reasons for fighting. Duong Thu Huong’s, Novel Without a Name, David Rabe’s, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, and Ishmael Beah’s, A Long Way Gone share themes of regret in order to show that war robs combatants of their innocence and hope. Through the eyes of a proven and stoic leader, Duong Thu Huong tells the story of a North Vietnamese man