War is kind

Bio

• youngest of 14 children 
• grew up in New York 
• in 1893 he wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
• he was a naturalist
• he wanted to be a baseball player 

repition

• "war is kind"- sarcasm war is tragic
• "these men were born to drill and die"- they were born to fight in the war
• "where a thousand corpses lie"
• to emphasize that many people die in war

imagery

• "where a thousand corpses lie"
• emphasizes the fact that war is brutal and thousands die
• "Point for them the virtue of slaughter"
• to enphasize that war is horrible and men get slaughtered

imagery

• "where a thousand corpses lie"
• emphasizes the fact that war is brutal and thousands die
• "Point for them the virtue of slaughter"
• to enphasize that war is horrible and men get slaughtered

theme

• war is... tragic
• destructive
• horrible
• harsh
• brutal

irony

• "war is kind"
• war isn't kind it's tragic and brutal
• "make plain to them the excellence of killing"
• Killing someone isn't excellent it's terrible

tone

• He dislikes it and doesn't agree with it.
• "raged at his breast, gulped and died"
• "in a field where a thousand corpses die"

speaker

• It think the speaker is a family member.
• He is missing his family member who is at war
• doesn't like war
• thinks war is harsh