long story short, i'm comparing the life of a teenager living through WWII and the life of a teen living through the iraq war.
[stating the differences]
any advice/comments/help would be appreciated.
thankss :)
intro para listed below.
Update:“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” (Twain) In a sense, the generation of teenagers that lived through World War II rhymes harmoniously with those living through the War on Terrorism. The scenario is much the same. John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace centers in on the teenage protagonist, Gene Forrester, as he tries to attain and maintain his own separate peace while WWII rages in Europe. However, in the very similarity that both generations lived through war, there are collasal differences. The strong undercurrent of individual fear that was in A Separate Peace is absent in American teens today. Without a connection to the war, it’s practically invisible unless you go looking for it. They way teens react to the war, or the world in general; the way we’re taught; and the way we live outside the classroom has taken a revolutionary turn.
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Very nice. I would spell "colossal" right though and maybe rephrase that sentence. Possibly something like: "Despite the obvious similarities, the differences are all too apparent to even the most casual observer." Overall it sounds really good so far.