Part one of term paper
The novel The Long March by William Styron is a prime example of anti-war, anti-goverment, and anti-military writing. William Styron uses marine reserves, that are forced to make a 36 mile march that they are not prepared for, to show the brutality and hypocrisy in the leaders of this country. The reserves are people that have been out of th ...

Part two of term paper
... The reserves are then marched back from training exercises and the whole way the characters fight against their own limits and the odds. The novel is set at a marine base in the Carolinas. The climate in the novel is fair and mild. The year is most likely in the 50's or 60's. The time is between large wars. World War II has ended a while back, and the Korean War is about to start. The reserves fought in World War II and one of the officers in command threatens to send a person to Korea. The time an ...