the grass of Guadalcanal, one of the bloodiest battles of the World War II, soldiers face a hidden enemy in the flourishing tropical nature. In fact it is invisible, and men who have been ordered to hunt them no choice but to climb hills, one after another, step by step, to meet his own death and to bring it to the enemy. The American commander wanted by the frontal attack proves to be a massacre, and only the disobedience of an officer will conquer the Japanese positions, where the soldiers reversed all the fury of revenge. War is a complicated issue, and James Jones is one of the more detailed versions that are known. The details of the daily lives of soldiers trapped in the torments of the jungle that have resist all to die in front of a Japanese machine gun speak for themselves in rebuilding the essence of the devastating war. Where not enough to elaborate descriptions of James Jones think about the soldiers in the first person to explain a condition chilling: "There were too many precautions. A man could not take care of everything to defend themselves. It was easier to kill than be killed if the will of the enemy. " James Jones goes even further in that it uncovers the psychological aspects of each soldier (the one who left home, what we will lose forever, the one that is already dead and does not know it), conflicts with official arrogant and indifferent and a piece after another take form a complete picture of the absurdity of military life that finds its raison d'etre, in the end, nell'indispensabilità heroism. How do you explain no frills one of the protagonists of the Thin Red Line "one of the risks of military life was that every twenty years, like clockwork, that part of the human race to which he belonged, which they were his policies or his ideals for humanity, was embroiled in a war, and could touch you to combat it. " As in any large portrait of the war experienced and seen from inside, even The thin red line track a very clear boundary between reality and fantasy in which the war takes shape. First of all, there is the reality: "It was a horrible vision, all were doing the same thing, all unable to stop it, all devoted and fiercely believed to be of free individuals. Expanded to include a large number of countries, millions of men who did the same on thousands of hills in the world. It did not end there. Continued. It was the concept, the concept ', because the reality of the modern state in action. " Then there is the understandable attempt to escape because "everyone lived by a strict fiction. Nobody, in fact, was what purported to be. It was as if each had invented a story about himself, and then pretending to be the hero of all. " A little trick for those who no longer knows that defense and, in the grass, waits for the inevitable.
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