Barbaric Image of America in Selected Literary Texts

Abstract

Though the Nazi concentration camps became a huge machine for killing all those suspected of resistance within Germany or in the countries it had occupied or that were its vassals in the II World War, the American barbaric acts which end that War is still the ugliest. This paper is intended to shed light on the barbaric image that literary texts such as John Hersey' "Hiroshima" and Antony Shadid's "Night Draws Near" portray. The paper hypothesizes that no matter who is writing the text about the American wars, the result will be a barbaric image for America. The paper validates the hypothesis as it follows the comparative approach to analyze the selected texts. It ends with a conclusion that shows the finding of the discussion.