Grave Of The Fireflies Analysis

In the film Grave of the Fireflies, the director tugs at people’s heartstrings and forces them to look at World War II in a different light – too often, we forgot that the civilian casualty numbers are real, live people, and we tend to just look at them as a figure. In addition, a good part of this film takes place after the war has ended, which is a period that goes vastly un-talked about. People like to think that after the war officially ended, it was a time of joy for everyone, but sadly this just isn’t the truth for so many around the world, including many Japanese people, who lost their entire livelihoods.

In America, from a very young age kids are imprinted with nationalism through their history classes, leading them to