Frank Szelingiewicz Literary Methods The Horror: A Reading of “Crossing into Poland” "I should wish to know where in the whole world you could find another father like my father?" The last line of Isaac Babel’s short story “Crossing into Poland,” turns the mood of the plot from another war story to a melancholic perception of the bloody horrors of the consequences of war. , A story that greatly shows the changing of one man’…showed first 75 words of 1107 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1107 total…a brutal past and cannot deal with the war anymore. “Crossing into Poland” as I see it, is a change of heart. After seeing all the brutal horrors of war, and having nightmares about it, the narrator can’t escape from it. But it makes the reader believe that eventually the narrator will become more of a civil solider, who sees the innocent people, as just that human beings instead of the enemy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**