Miss Mary O'Hare All Dressed in Black!!

"You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs" (Slaughter-House-Five, p. 14).

In your blog, please respond to the above quotation. Do you agree or disagree? Do movies help promote war? Were they more likely to promote war in the past. Please explain your position.



I honestly don't think that they "promote" war, but more like encourage. They show war heroes and how you'll come back a hero and hero blah blah blah like it matters. I don't think people really REALIZE that the people portraying the "heroes" are in like their late 20's MAYBE early 30's and they are playing 18 year olds, at least in the movies. In the books on the other hand are different. An author is using their ability with words. I highly doubt anyone puts that into proportion.
Young men/women get drafted and of course they are scared, but they can't let it get to them or else they ARE dead.
Certain movies and books I would say promote and encourage war. I only think that someone who is easily brainwashed will actually believe in what a movie or book tells them. Which I've found out lately is MOSTLY all of the younger generation. Plus they will take it into their own hands and do research. But that doesn't make any sense does it? The information is right in front of us...or is it? Honestly no minds of their own and they must be told what to believe in.
I don't know where I really stand. These are just my thoughts.
Hope this makes some sense.

~Melissa Anne