When War is Honey in Wasabi A wise man once said that “It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country”, but over the years war has proved him wrong and with the poem “Dulce et Decorum est” Wilfred Owen wonderfully explains why he is wrong. “Dulce et Decorum est” is about a World War I veteran who tells the reader about an incident where the narrators company is ambushed by mustard gas and one of his allies die gruesomely. In “Five Day Requiem for Vietnam” by Nan Braymer, the author tells the reader about the Vietnam War and how the people did not want it to occur but the government made it happen. Both “Five Day requiem for Vietnam” by Nan Braymer and “Dulce et Decorum est” by Wilfred Owen use of allusions to show the good and evil to convey the theme that human nature has many facets and complexities, but Braymer …show more content…
In “Five Day Requiem for Vietnam” by Nan Braymer, the author uses allusions to create the theme that human nature has many facets and complexities. When the narrators tells the reader about the protest that went on she ends by saying “What would Jesus say?” (Braymer 15). This is an allusion because Jesus is a historical figure head of the Christian religion and the son of god. He tried to convey one message, that love is the way. The narrator said this to tell the government that what they are doing is wrong, and that sending unwilling soldiers to the battlefield to simply die is not showing love. Telling them that Jesus would think it is wrong to send unwilling people into the battlefield. This is good because the protesters are using Jesus, religion to show that what the government is doing wrong and Jesus theoretically sided with them. This allusion shows that one of human natures many complexities, good is forever and shown through time such as in World War