Causes and Effects of War and Violence to the Military and Civilian
             Although most of these texts all in some way involve war and violence, they all have their own little personal stories within them. I found the War and Violence section to be one of the most interesting because some of the stories involved either actually real people, or real events that have occurred in our time. . My belief is one of the most common causes of war are the people or civilians so in this case war defiantly has an effect on people, but also on soldiers. The argument that I will be supporting to you is what the stories I have chosen say about the effects of war and violence on the military and civilians.
             The first text that I will be relating to is Anthony Hecht's More Light More Light. This story to me once I totally understood it was almost horrific to read. It is a poem that is written about what went on in a concentration camp during the age of the holocaust. Right off the bat, 'Composed in the Tower before his execution", this beginning is immediate to the fact of the violence that is occurring to an innocent Jew. "but the death was horrible, The sack of gunpowder failing to ignite. His legs were blistered sticks on which the black sap bubbled and burst as he howled for the Kindly Light" A poor man living a horrible death is begging for the Kindly Light which in this case is Heaven. Due to the fact that this poem is about the holocaust you almost immediately wonder if such a death like this has actually occurred. Also this poem brings in the death of three men to which two are buried alive by a "pole" and then the pole is murdered in his own dignity. "No Light No Light in the blue Polish eye" this line sums up what has happened to the man who had to burry two other alive, then for him not cooperating he was killed in his own dignity. War and violence not only effect those who
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