Discuss your experience reading "Guests of the Nation" and "War."
Neither title seems to describe its story accurately.
What are the contradictions between title and story that make the titles ironic?
What do you think is the strongest force at work in the stories--religion? family? friendship? self-preservation? nation? duty? grief? something else? Explain your choice.
Did reading the Wilfred Owen poem affect your understanding of any of the stories, but particularly the WW I story "War"?
***poem by WILFRED OWEN
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html