Dispatches

I'd have to say that out of all the material that we've looked at so far, besides the very first book that we had to read, Dispatches has been my least favorite. I don't know why exactly it was so hard for me to get into but apparently I'm not the only one who had trouble with it. I was able realize thought that he did really use a particularly beautiful and extremely descriptive style of writing that was in such contrast to the harsh brutalities that he was writing about. But, I think because the language was so flowery and poetic while describing these grotesque things I think that helped to reinforce an idea that we've seen in a lot of the other bodies of work that we've had, which is that there is this sense of beauty in war. With all of its dehumanizing, vicious, realities, there are moments of pure beauty.