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This 3 page paper discusses the book “The Line” by Arch and Martin Flanagan, about the experiences of Arch Flanagan as a prisoner of the Japanese in WWII, building the Thai-Burma Railway. It discusses the idea that conflict is profound; the conflict refers to that between returning veterans and their families. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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WWII. This paper discusses the book and the idea that the impact of conflict can be profound. Discussion At first glance, the prompt seems nonsensical: of course conflict can have
a profound impact, thats why its called conflict. But the meaning becomes clearer when we consider the subtitle of the book: "A Mans Experience of the Burma Railway; A Sons
Quest to Understand." This suggests that the real conflict under consideration is not the clash of the armies, but of the men who fought and the families they left behind.
When these men returned from the war, they were changed, and not easy to know. That is the case here. Martin Flanagan says that is father is a "quiet, self-contained
man. Growing up, he was like a hard old monk. Not physically hard, but hard to know and even harder to impress" (2005). He had no interest in the things
that are supposed to impress people, such as success and wealth (Flanagan, 2005). It wasnt until he was a grown man that Martin Flanagan realized that the thing that matter
most to his father was "this belief he called humanity, what a Buddhist might call compassion" (Flanagan, 2005). Flanagan notes that of the five men he knows who "fought and
suffered in the Asian theatre of World War II," four returned with "the imprint of Eastern philosophy upon them" (Flanagan, 2005). Flanagan says that he knew as a child that
his father had fought in "a war" and had been in a POW camp, but little else (Flanagan, 2005). He didnt know it then, but realized as an adult that
his mother knew a great deal about what his father had been through, but she didnt talk about it any more than her husband did (Flanagan, 2005). He writes also,
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