Mark Twain in the short story “The War Prayer”(1905), strives to get the readers to understand why war is unethical no matter the reason but gives both sides of the story so the readers are able to have different opinions on this topic. An example that Twain gives is “God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunders thy clarion and lightning thy sword!”. This explains that how biblical Reference to the end old testament in the bible and ties all back to the thesis for war being unethical. Twain brings up “God” a lot of this is because twain really wants the readers to believe that for war to be unethical it has to be for no certain reason. The relationship between the author and the reader is great because Mark Twain really goes into depth
