Siegfried Sasson illustrates the dramatic transformation most soldiers went through after experiencing World War 1. Englishmen like Sasson initially thought themselves as involved in a heroic effort to defend liberalism and the British a hellish and pointless nightmare. Intellectuals like Paul Valery were also disillusioned by the war, and many feared that the West and its liberal values would not long survive. In the essay below, he makes allusion to the scene in which Hamlet ponders mortality while studying the skull that is all that remains of a man he had known in life.
The views of the narrators similar in "Facing It" and "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk" when both narrators discuss the negative impact of war on the innocent civilians.
Answer: Option A
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While the writer of Facing It is Yusef Kounyaa, a Vietnamese poet and the writer of Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk is Neil Sheehan. Both of them have a common theme- the Vietnam War. While Yusef Kounyaa, a Vietnamese who has returned from USA has written in his perspective.
In facing it poem, writer explores some different angles of Vietnam War. This says the readers about the war consequences and its changes on people lives.
Neil Sheehan, an American journalist who covered the Vietnam War, has written is from his perspective. i.e. his experience view in war end up. Finally, states that citizen of Vietnam not at all supported as only destruction happened to them.
The excerpt posted above is actually taken from the novel "The Rice Sprout Song" which was written by Eileen Chang. And based on the excerpt above, how the underlined words invoked a sense of place and time is that it refers to the Chinese Nationalist victory. This novel was written by the author in the communist China. The answer would be the last option.
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