War is a terrible thing. It ruins lives all over the world. It often happens because of someone’s different views, or because someone makes a mistake. War can shape a person completely, and even change how they feel about certain things. One thing is for sure. When people have experienced war, they will never the same as before.
War does however also bring people together. It can make us appreciate what we have in our friends and family. In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel ‘Happy Birthday’, we see both the consequences and, in a way, the good things that war does to people.
In the beginning of the novel, we are told about how the boy entered the old man’s life: “a refugee woman had left a baby in his arms and never returned” (L 26-27). This tells us that the old man is not the biological father of the boy, and just entered his life by coincidence. The relationship between the two is very close however, given by the fact that the old man says: “I haven’t been a very good father” (L 30). The old man clearly sees himself as the father of the boy, and the boy most likely sees the old man as a father figure, since they have been together for as long as the boy can remember.
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