Many people worry about what happens during war but no one realizes what happens to the young people coming back from war. The young people that go to war will change them dramatically when they come back. In the short story Soldiers Home, by E. Heimingway, he writes about a young mans after war experience, returning home and into society. In another short story called Speaking of Courage, by Tim OBrien, he too, explores the after effects of war and how it can impact a young persons life. The short stories, Soldiers Home, by E. Heimingway and Speaking of Courage, by Tim OBrien are more differences than similarities.There are a lot of similarities between the two stories. First of all, both of the stories share the some theme. The theme of both stories is, war makes people engaged at war hard for them to reenter society. Both stories demonstrate this theme because the two stories are about a guy who comes back from war and is lost and doesnt know where to go. Also the two stories deal with the disillusionment of the people returning home from war. A quotation from Speaking of Courage, He drove slowly. No hurry, nowhere to go. (162) demonstrates the point that the main character has nowhere to go. They had fought and they have just reentered society. The morals in war are very different from the society that they had just left before they went to war. Also, young people returning from war, lose feelings that they once had about things and people. Krebs, the main character from Speaking of Courage, loses his feelings he had for his mother, Yes. Dont you love your mother, dear boy? No, Krebs said (99).Another similarity between the stories was that both stories had characters in them, which affect the characters position and reveals something about their personality. Krebs had lost his desire to go out and get a girl, Now he would have liked a girl if she had come to him and no wanted to talk. But here at home it was all too...
