Saturday, May 18, 2019
One of the reasons the author must have written the book
One of the themes of the book is that outcome of the war was not determined by technology nor tactics. Victory in the South Pacific absolutely depended on gay judgment and will. This is the implement that drives home the reality of the battle.One of the reasons the author must have written the book is to show just how more the serviceman will and judgment can achieve. This makes the book the more relevant today because we live in a world that gravitates around Technology. We have slowly turned from Master to Slave and Sea of blast is a good way to show its readers that indeed the human being is still capable of achieving whatsoever is desired.The book is bound in the era of the early 1930s were the industrial revolution had taken turned but its impacts had not fully been experienced around the whole world. This is mavin of the reasons why they battle was primarily depended on Human will power and judgment. It was also the era of the Pacific War and the book centers on its prog ression and centers on the Battle of the Leyte GulfOne of the subtopics could be inner conflict on the part of the officers especially the Nipponese. They had dived loyalties to the Throne, the IJN and the friend soldiers under their command.Another subtopic is Evans breaking all the Racial Barriers by gaining entrance into the Naval honorary society. This is because commander Evans was a Cherokee Indian and it was absolutely rare of some one of Evans heritage to be accepted into the U.S Naval Academy.However according to Hal M. Friedman one of the reviewers of Thomas work, Thomas mentions these things but without developing them. One would like to know more about factors in Evanss family background that helped him in his education, motivated him to join the Navy, and enabled him to overcome the prejudices in the fleet to obtain an Academy appointment. Again, these are all mentioned by Thomas but not in as thorough a manner as the rarity of the accomplishments requires. This could possibly be one of the shortcomings of the book.Another possible subtopic could be Kuritas decision not to sacrifice thousands of lives. Had he not made this choice then the Americans would totally have been destroyed. This gives us a point to ponder about. Why did he do it?The author sustainments his theme/thesis firstly by making it known that these men had inner conflicts that would have deterred them from achieving their goal. This is actually where the fact of will power comes in because had it not been due to this self convincing then they would have failed in their missions by simply crowing upThe other support for the theme is that without any support, Spragues forces puta shockingly fierce fight in which Evans strongly featured. This shows the human body being put to the test of time and it cleverly brings out the fact about human judgment for the Spragues could simply have seen their enemies then decide to run for cover. But on the turnabout they perceived the situatio n in a different perspective (Judgment) then decided to give them the Japanese a very hard battle.Moving away from the dimension of the themes purpose in the winning of the battle, we realize that once again it was will power that enabled the Japanese endure fifty long hours in shark infested waters of the ocean after their ship sunk. It took a lot of self will to choose to hold on in this situation for many a people would have simply given up.Does the author successfully support his theme? Well according to these three examples and other numerous ones in the book I specify he does. He just does not implicitly express his theme but he goes pay off ahead and gives evidence to emphasize his theme
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