In the short story collection, "Redeployment," Phil Klay describes two conflicting worlds for the soldiers who came back from combat. One of the worlds is the battleground where they were isolated there for several months; the other one is their homeland they used to live. In the first story, Redeployment, Phil Klay discusses about how the vile of battleground still effect these soldiers. Even though they have come back from the Iraq War, they still couldn’t live as normal civilians. On the battleground, under uncountable death threats, both of their body and mind were set in a very nervous state. As a result, after they come back from battleground, they couldn’t fit into the suburb lifestyle they used to live. Unlike many other books about veterans which focuses on how veterans are helpless when they are back, Redeployment is focus on how these veterans are still thinking and acting like they were still on the battleground. Moreover, the inappropriate behaviors of the marine create a sense of absurd. This absurdity back in the mainland America along with the absurdity of the marines’ behaviors in the oversea background create a best reflection of the cruelness and meaningless of wars. The behaviors of the marine in the suburb seems very ridicules and strange through the perspective of civilians which indicates the influence of war on their states of mind. In the American Eagle Outfitter store, the first narrative “I” has made a speech between the while, red and orange state. He states that these people “who have no idea where Fallujah is” are in the white state which they don’t have to worry about their life at all (24-25 Klay). On the battlefield, some soldiers lost their mind under the huge pressure and entered the red state which they didn’t care about there own life anymore. However, most soldiers became the orange state in which they tried to identify every threat in the environment around them. Even though it i