Poetics: Despair. Rejection, Realization & Recuperation
Composing this work took me on the road to a challenging task that required an extensive amount of time. After reading the novels selected by the professor to read for class I was able to observe many elements used in my work. From the novels read, I was able to take the styles used and put a unique twist to it to try to combine all of them and make a story of my own. Some of the many novels I used were Ceremony by Leslie Mormon Silko, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan. An example of the use of styles is within Ceremony, I took in the creation of Leslie to have a soldier come back home with no injuries but with post dramatic stress. This novel helped me start off my very creation of everything to come.
“Spoils of War” is an account of the experience of despair, rejection, realization, and recuperation on behalf of Natalie. Natalie is the mother of four children who is married to a man who leaves her behind to join the Vietnam War. I composed this writing not to be about the soldier returning and his life but the life and experience of the women married to those soldiers. The experiences of having the man of your dreams turn into a man who is now in fear and in need of drugs. Many of the men who participated in the Vietnam War turned to drugs for an escape of everything around them. Yet when they came back their women and their families were the ones that suffered. Within this story you will see the events that made Natalie work hard to keep her family together and help the man she loved. She had seen so many things within the woman living around her that she never though it could happen to her. But we never know what is going our way until it happens. Fortunately for this family, towards the end because of the strength women have to fight for their families Natalie takes her husband to a rehabilitation place to better himself.
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