WAR

Kelly B. & Robyn G.


 * < POSITIVE ||< NEGATIVE ||
 * < **Teamwork**-When fighting a war, teamwork is a large factor. You always hear of the bonds soldiers form from war. ||< **Death-** Obviously, immediately when we think of war, we often thing of death. Sadly, it's one of the many things that comes with war, and often in large quantities. ||
 * < **Strength**- People involved in war are seen as strong leaders, willing to fight. It also takes a lot of strength as a unit to win a war. ||< **Corrupt-** On one side, war can be seen as good, but to many, it is seen as a way for one side to be cruel and corrupt to the other. ||
 * < **Power-** Many wars are fought in order to gain power. This can be a positive thing because a gain of power can be to stop someone who is harming others, or for something such as regaining civil righs. ||< **Power-**Although power can be a good thing, too much is often a negative. Power can lead to greed, which can then cause even more problems. ||
 * < **Defending-** The idea of defending one's country is a positive connotation that goes with war. This is one of the most postive things about war, because people often see the fact that a few people are defending others by going to war to protect a whole group of people. ||< **Sorrow-** Sorrow is a part of war that is always present. Whether its sorrow over the loss of someone, or the sorrow that people who survived the war must deal with forever. Sorrow is a negative connotation that is associated with the outcomes of war. ||
 * < **Noble-** Members of war are very often portrayed as heroes, and very noble men. This also seems to tie in to honor and how making the sacrifice of going to war makes people seem more noble. ||< **Separation of Country-** War is something that can divide a country. Even looking at today's war, there are millions of peope who support it, but millions that don't. Also for instance, our civil war; war can literally divide a country. ||
 * < **Brave**-Often when people think of war they think of the bravery the people involved must have to continue to be involved with a war. It takes a brave person to be able to start, fight, and end a war. ||< **Non-helpful/harmful-** To some people, war is seen as something that doesn't really help a situation. In fact, many view it as harmful. To many, fighting is not the answer, and by fighting and going into war, we aren't accomplishing anything but killing others for the sake of others. ||
 * < **Freedom-** One of the major things associated with war is freedom. We fight for our freedom, our right to do what we want (at least within reason, usually constitutional reason), and there's no doubt that freedom is a positive thing. ||< **Freedom-** Although this is seen mainly as good, too much freedom can always be a problem. If we are constantly fighting for more freedom, eventually a limit must be made or we will become completely self-governed which can lead to some of the above mentioned negative problems. ||

On page 96 is a place where Aureliano realizes the Conservatives are cheating the Liberals out of their rights, by stuffing the ballot box. Here he says "I'd go to war because of those ballots." This instance is a positive where war can actually help out the people of the country where it is in, because without it, they are getting no political, or otherwise, freedom. Without the war, there would have been no other way for the Liberals to try and take control over the way they saw was fair. The Conservatives were being corrupt, and the war was meant to fix that. This is to restore the freedom that the citizens deserved.
 * __An example of WAR being //postive// in the book:__**

A negative example near the beginning of the war is where the Conservatives are now alienating almost every right the citizens of Macondo have to try and stop the Liberal uprising. A passage on page 100 is where it describes all the terrible things that are happening in the town because of the hostiliy such as, "A 6 P.M. curfew was established. A more drastic [weapons] search... was undertaken. They dragged out Dr. Noguera, tied him to a tree in the square, and shot him without any due process of law... Four soldiers under his command snatched a woman... and killed her with their rifle butts." This long string of terrors on this page is something that does usually happen in war, where helpless civilians are punished, even killed, for something they are not even affiliated with. This best describes the unnecessary death and corruption that war can bring.
 * __An example of WAR being //neagtive// in the book:__**