Usually in life we always encounter someone who has suffered greatly whether is would fighting in a war, losing a loved one, or witnessing tragedy. These specific individuals are usually the quiet ones, psychological believing no one will understand their perspective. Without words being their source of communication, the silence in which they radiate says more about their behavior. In this week's reading of "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway,  we are introduced to the protagonist, Harold Krebs, who was a man who came back from war who ever since then hasn't spoken much.

Before being enlisted into the Marines, Krebs was a part of a fraternity party in a Methodist College in Kansas. With frat boys being particularly known as being loud, energetic and cheerful, Krebs enters the war and when he returns from the traumatic experience he returns as a secluded man withdrawing himself from society. With his late return and the credibility of his stories playing factors for his isolation, its his psychological status that radiates his silence exponentially. However, sometimes silence can say a lot more than spoken words, with silence detecting an internal disturbance within him we get more character depth with Krebs than any other character since the readers as well experience the seclusion and agony he suffers.

With the title "Soldier's Home" and Hemingway being the creator of the writing we can understand the pain that many suffer from traumatic events. Since words cannot fixate their problems, their only coping mechanism is silence.