Postwar Life

"For some men, the central struggle of postwar life was to restore their dignity and find a way to see the world as something other than menacing blackness... For others, the war would never really end" (349). This quote is true not only for the book, but also in real life. There are always stories about people who come back from the war with PTSD and all kinds of other issues that they can't control. It is up to them and only them how they deal with what they had gone through- whether they try to move on or live with it forever. Although many don't choose to live with the issues they have, most can at least make an effort to "see the world as something other than menacing blackness", even though it would be one of the hardest things they would have to do.