... always changing. During the summer session, Gene saw Finny as perfect and almost as a god. Phineas like a river god, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each muscle aligned in perfection with all the others to maintain this supreme fantasy of achievement (p67). Gene was Finny's best friend, and Finny ... on that damn limb except for him . I didn't need to feel any tremendous rush of gratitude toward Phineas.(p25) After this first incident in the tree, Gene starts seeing Finny as the enemy, and starts to co...

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... we try to un-personify the enemy, they are people just like us, they fight for their own cause, just as we fight for ours. However, as the war actually starts, people realize that they need to fight for their very own survival, and this is where all people are the same. The movie ... starts in a high school classroom, where the teacher excites all the students about the glory and grandeur of war. He talks about the other brave schools that have had mass-enlistings, ... scene in the movie was when Paul killed a man in the field. Unable to get back to his side until nightfall, Paul was ...

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... BOAT COMPARED TO THE GREAT HMAS ADELAIDE & GIVING HIS RESCUERS A BIG HUG. TONY ENTERED A RACE CALLED THE VENDEE GLOBE, WHICH IS THE LONGEST MOST CHALLENGING YACHT RACE EVERY CONCEIVED, IT STARTS ON THE WEST COAST OF FRANCE, GOES AROUND ANTARTICA AND BACK TO FRANCE. 25,000MILES OF WATER TRAVELLED BY ONE PERSON. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAIL NON-STOP AROUND THE ... KNOW THEN. BY JAN 8TH THE TONE OF HIS THOUGHTS CHANGE. HE BE BECOMES ANGRY WITH HIMSELF. HE CAN FEEL ANOTHER STORM COMING. HIS BODY IS STARTING TO FEEL THE EFFECTS OF HYPOTHERMIA. HIS FAITH IN BEING RESCUED STARTS TO DROP. THIS IS T...

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... , this was not what Wilfred Owen felt when he was on the front line. Owen's description about the exhausted soldiers is excellent. The use of words provides a disturbing image. He starts by saying: "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks," This means the soldiers look old and feeble and the "sacks" represent their ragged clothes. Their health is described as: "Coughing ... cheered Goal." The voices are saddening because the boys are running around and the soldier can't. A wonderful contrasting metaphor is used to describe the loss of blood from the soldier's body: "He's lost his colou...

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... are arriving at the beach in the LCVP boats. The young boys are let out in the ocean (the boats can't go to shore because of the mines) and shooting starts. Bullets go whizzing by, and lives are being lost everywhere. For 25 minutes the screen is filled with the true horrors of combat that most war movies cannot capture: young ... boys dieing, many whose limbs or other body parts have been exploded. This scene is the most realistic of the entire movie. Many WWII vets thought the opening scene was very realistic. One Veteran stated, "There were people ... ...

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... the physical sufferings of the men, which tries to make the reader consider the 'glories' of war and 'The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori.' The poem starts with a harsh presentation of exhausted men: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, This tells us of the decline of fit ... guilty as the other soldier 'plunges at' him for some desperate help. This memory clearly tormented Owen as a nightmare. The final part emphasises the bitterness created by war as the body of the victim was 'flung' into the 'wagon'. The ...

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... the government, which is spoke in Oceania is Newspeak. Oceania is constantly at war with the brotherhood, which allows Big Brother to stay in power. Winston's rebellion against Big Brother starts in section one with him writing in a diary, which is not allowed in Oceania. Later in section one he has sex with Julia who is also an outer-party member ... in this book was Winston verses the rats. When Winston was a child the government killed his mom and dragged her into a field to dispose of her. Winston later found her body lying dead in a field, with rats covering her. Rats then became W...

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... together by William Golding during World War 2. It is set during the war on an island in the middle of the ocean without any link to the world. The story starts of by a plane full of English boys crashing. Nobody has a clue of what has happened or where the plane crashed. Even outside in England no one knows what happened. Here ... 's death and the unleashing of the beasts soul, or the unleashing of Simons souls. In anyway it means that trouble is going to happen because either the beasts" soul or body is free too over power. Or that Christ is not there to protect the kids any more. Furt...

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... care about anyone but themselves. Arthur Birling believes `a man has to make his own way, has to look after himself and his family too". Birling begin a speech on community, he starts by saying `the ways some of these cranks talk and write now you"d think everyone has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like ... normal no one will notice anything is wrong. His beliefs have not changed even after that has happened. The Inspectors final speech was that `we are all members of one body, we are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon c...

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