Assignment: Write a persuasive essay of 500 words minimum, taking a perspective on the issue: Sometimes war is unavoidable. While we must recognize the horrors of war, sometimes there is no alternative-some forces absolutely must be stopped even at horrific costs. What then, if any, are the lines that must not be crossed? You may incorporate points, whether direct quotations or paraphrases, from the novel Slaughterhouse five.
Basic Essay Structure This is a multi-paragraph essay that should have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion that ends with an emphatic point. Make sure that in your introduction you provide enough background information to explain the central issue of your paper and the point you wish to make about it. Your thesis, the essential point that you wish to make, should be stated in your introduction.
Basic Information According to the article, “The Impact of Total War,” the emergent thinking among combatant nations during World War II was, “If all the people of a country were involved in the war, then the country could ask the civilian population to make major sacrifices to win the war. And if the civilian population were necessary for victory, then they were also targets for the enemy. If World War II were a war of the people, then the people were its victims as well as its fighters” (181-182). One rationale for attacking civilian territories was that winning the war was contingent upon disruption of efforts supportive of combat activity, not only on combat activity itself. The novel we have been discussing, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, is centered on the bombing of Dresden in February 1945. Dresden, in fact, was not an industrial city whose production was integral to the war effort; it had no military or strategic significance, and its population was almost entirely civilian, including thousands of German refugees fleeing the advancing Russian armies.Assignment: Write a persuasive essay of 500 words minimum, taking a perspective on the issue: Sometimes war is unavoidable. While we must recognize the horrors of war, sometimes there is no alternative-some forces absolutely must be stopped even at horrific costs. What then, if any, are the lines that must not be crossed? You may incorporate points, whether direct quotations or paraphrases, from the novel Slaughterhouse five.