If one looks past the brutal aspects of war, they will see that war is… Art.

When anyone thinks war, they think about the violence and death. This picture is trying to show that if one were to look past all of the craziness, they will see art and beauty. When Charles Leffler visited our class, he talked about certain aspects of war that he saw as beautiful. He specifically mentioned the red streaks that a machine gun fires off. He said that a lot of them put together during a firefight made the fight a beautiful site. In The Things They Carried, the author, Tim O’Brien, talks about many things that make war art. He talks about seeing a “cool, impassive moon” rising over the nighttime paddies. He admired the “fluid symmetries of troops on the move, the harmonies of sound and shape and proportion, the great sheets of metal-fire streaming down from a gunship, the rockets red glare.” The idea of it isn’t very pretty but seeing it makes a person interested. It makes them stop to admire what is in front of them. This picture is another example of that. As this truck fires off rounds, anyone around can only look and admire the red lines that fire with it. Don’t think about what the truck fired at. Don’t think about the outcome. This photo is about being astonished by the physical beauty of war. 
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction. New York: Broadway, 1998. Print.
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