In The Things They Carried, O'Brien showed hatred towards war and killing. He hated the fact that America was fighting a war that made people suffer. "I was drafted to fight a war I hated...American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons" (O'Brien 40). O'Brien's opinions showed hatred towards the war. The Vietnamese suffered for no defined reasons. Not only did the Vietnamese suffer, but the American soldiers suffered also. Most soldiers had to defend something they didn't believe in. "There were occasions, I believed, when a nation was justified in using military force to achieve its ends, to stop Hitler or some comparable evil, and I told myself that in such circumstances I would've willingly marched off to battle" (O'Brien 44). O'Brien hated the fact that he had to fight a war he didn't

The Things They Carried and Night were not identical. They were similar, though, through the one aspect of hate and the great sufferings it caused. It wasn't intentionally done in the same way, but the subject of suffering can cause readers to feel and relate to what the authors are trying to say about the amount of suffering, generated from hate, are placed in wars. There's no way someone can run away from suffering. No matter what type of war it is, suffering will always become a major factor until the end. But suffering is not just something that happens then disappears. With hate linked closely to suffering, it'll stay and continue breathing on.

Hate towards "the Almighty" and faith was definitely shown in Night. With all the mental and physical suffering Elie went through, the greatest suffering happened through his loss of faith. "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for" (Wiesel 31)? His hate towards his belief made him a different person. He found no purpose to believing in it, causing him to act differently. "My father had just been struck, before my very eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid...Has I changed so much, then? So quickly? Now remorse began to gnaw me. I thought only: I shall never forgive them for that" (Wiesel 37). Elie's loss in faith, his hate towards his beliefs, and his changed image gre

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