How does 'Regeneration' and 'Journey's End' explore the horrors of war?

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How does 'Regeneration' and 'Journey's End' explore the horrors of war?

Both texts challenge assumptions about the war. In both, setting is integral to achieving an insight into the horrors of war. Rivers role as a military doctor in regeneration is a useful tool, which enables the reader to obtain a deeper understanding of these horrors. In Journey's End this insight is achieved through an examination of men in a trench at the front line. In this essay I will discuss and explore the ways both authors convey the horrors of war. These are conveyed by the use of characters that evoke flashbacks and the mental state of characters.

Regeneration and Journey's End explore the horrors in different ways and

similar ways: Regeneration shows how soldiers suffered horrors once they has been at the front line; whereas Journey's End shows the effect and horrors during the war. Regeneration is a story told via flashbacks, it is written mainly in third person chronological narrative this allows Barker to show us the soldier's stories from a number of perspectives. Journey's End is a story told from the front line by the soldiers. The irony of Journey's End