Krebs Vs Berlin

O’Brien’s ‘‘Speaking of Courage’’ and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘’Soldier’s Home’’ are about two soldiers who comes home from war uncelebrated. Harold Krebs and Paul Berlin have many similarities and differences. They are both soldiers and each have been fighting a war, Berlin the Vietnam war, Krebs World War 1. Both of the characters get antisocial and depressed by the war. The reader gets to know that Krebs is depressed and antisocial by him only giving short answers, which are mostly yes or no. Berlin, on the other hand, just drives around alone, thinking about things he wants to tell his dad and other people about war, and that he ‘‘almost won the silver start’’. Berlin makes no effort to talk to anybody, he just drives around silently,