In a dissertation titled The Language of War, Harvard literature professor James Dawes attempts to explain the after-effects of war through a literary framework. Dawes suggests, “War dismantles the culture that constitutes the individual; it violates the boundaries that structure social meaning” (Dawes 133). Deductively, Inman loses his humanlike qualities, including empathy, due to the distorted values affected by warfare. However, the larger theme that transcends Frazier’s novel in some reiteration: violence for
In a dissertation titled The Language of War, Harvard literature professor James Dawes attempts to explain the after-effects of war through a literary framework. Dawes suggests, “War dismantles the culture that constitutes the individual; it violates the boundaries that structure social meaning” (Dawes 133). Deductively, Inman loses his humanlike qualities, including empathy, due to the distorted values affected by warfare. However, the larger theme that transcends Frazier’s novel in some reiteration: violence for