"War" by Edwin Starr is thematically connected to "The Sniper" because in both the story and the song the inhumanity of war is shown, in the song one lyric is "War means tears, to thousands of mothers eyes, when their sons go to fight, and lose their lives". I found that one of the biggest similarities between the story and the song because in the story one soldier had killed his own brother, and you can imagine how the mother would feel about one of her children dying, and how bad the brother would feel for killing his own brother for no reason. The message of this song is that war is useless and has no reason for it to happen, war is a negative impact on the world because all it does is cause destruction to places, and harm people. That is connected in the story because in the story there are points that describe destroyed areas. I decided to use that picture in this post because that is what i can imagine the environment would be like during the story. I think that because in the story it says "machine guns and rifles broke the silence" because there is nothing going on in the city, the reason is because the war cleared out the village.
Link to lyrics - http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/edwin_starr/war.html
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