Similarities Between B. O. B And The Con Job

B.Y.O.B is the title of a song by System of a Down, a very political and inspiring metal group. The Con Job is poem by Charles Bukowski who is famous for a number of his poems. It’s easy to assume that B.Y.O.B and The Con Job are very similar in topic, yet different in the same sense. I will first discuss the song B.Y.O.B and then the poem The Con Job. Both the Song and the poem use examples and illustrations to show why they protest these wars. B.Y.O.B is the first single released from the metal band System of a Downs fourth album Mezmorize, and written by the bands singer Serj Tankian. The song is written in protest against the Iraq war. B.Y.O.B means “Bring Your Own Bombs”, which is extremely similar to the common phrase “Bring Your Own

Serj and Charles both show their true emotions and feelings about the war, for instance Serj says “Barbarisms by Barbaras with pointed heels”. Barbarisms meaning extreme cruelty and Barbaras is another word for barbarians. All of it summing up to mean simple the brutality of war and the people who profit from it are simple barbarians making people believe in war and that is a necessity. Charles emotions seem to be every in his poem, but one that stuck out to me was when he finishes a line he says “Were sent there to fight and win”. This line is in The Con Job three times the reason being that when we go to war we are expected to win, no one thinks we can or will lose. This image is betrayed because of previse wars and the way our new and media use coverage of the war. There are very few differences in these two great works of literature. The most eye pooping difference is the fact that The Con Job is about Dessert Storm and B.Y.O.B is about Iraq Freedom. Another obvious difference would be how each is portrayed, B.Y.O.B as a party of some sort saying things like “Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time”. Whereas The Con Job says “The ground war began today”. Charles shows nothing in his poem to make anything about Dessert Storm seem fun. B.Y.O.B and The Con Job express how the news portrays a war, what type of people fight the war, the hidden messages our