War: The struggle for survival The atomic bomb struck Hiroshima. A flash of dazzling light shot across the sky; then a huge purplish mushroom cloud boiled 40,000 feet into the atmosphere. Dense smoke, swirling fires, and suffocating dust soon engulfed the ground for miles. Much of the city was leveled almost instantly. Approximately 130,000 people were killed; tens of thousands more suffered severe burns and nuclear poisoning. (A People and a Nation 787) This was just one of …showed first 75 words of 561 total…

…showed last 75 words of 561 total…Spielberg and his cast did. War is tragic and is depicted from every aspect. Whether in books, movies, or paintings, war is full of suffering. War is undoubtedly the struggle for survival. There is the struggle for life in the trenches, the struggle of families due to the loss of a husband or a brother, and the struggle for insanity. These compounded stories of war reveal the realities and feelings of those afflicted by war.