... shows Henrys desire to be a wounded war hero. He does not want to be set apart from the other boys as a coward. As soon as the old soldier passed him, he went back to the lines and continued on with the boys. He starts walking next to Jim Conklin, a soldier that he knew pretty well. They are talking, when all of a sudden Jim runs away. He ... soldier leads Henry back to his regiment. The first person Henry sees when he gets to the group is his friend Tom. In order to save face, Henry makes up a big story about how he got shot in the head, and then got separated from the regiment. Tom ta...

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Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" is a story of a soldier who returns from World War I as a transformed person. The story depicts his inability to fit back into the society. Krebs is at home but he doesn't feel at home. He is with family but he doesn't ... feel he belongs there. Like various authors Ernest Hemingway tried to portray his own life after he came back from war throughout the ... actions - kissing his mother and kneeling in prayer - are lies that will speed his departure from home" (78). Even his adoring sister, who had some good memories with his brother, makes him lie about hi...

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... in literature, some of the world's greatest works are about armies and battles. The numerous conflicts of the war and peace produced writers who sometimes chose to concentrate their writing on the horrifying effects and worthlessness of war. These writers wrote about the cruelty of war and they reveal the dark truth about it. They wrote a good piece of literature which really showed the peoples feelings during this ... time. The wars affected people and their everyday lives because many of their loved ones were ... irony to demonstrate that death is one of life's most challenging obsta...

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... recognizable; it is Findley's effective use of the jargon of war that heighten the realistic image of war he portrays. Owen has an appropriate question in the tenth line of his poem; "What are we doing here?" but he needs to expand on this idea. The following stanza could have demonstrated the mental anguish the soldier felt, and then addressed the treacherous weather condition. Each author has his ... own unique style for depicting the psychological affects war has on man, but Findley's description ... . Description is quite vivid in Owen's poem, and overall there is a good sense of rh...

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... or necessarily based on a true story, the events that happen and detailed scenes are something that Erich Remarque had witnessed. Remarque was a soldier during the first World War and actually had a stint on the front at one time. This is important knowledge for the reader to have, because although the main character is not Remarque himself, many of the instances told are things that Remarque said ... personally witnessed. The fact that Remarque was in the army only adds more belief into the reader about the horrific events that take place in the story. The ... escaped shells, were dest...

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... underground tunnel, their orders were to examine then blow up all tunnels they came across. One of his men went down into the tunnel, after a while the soldier didn't pop up and Cross without warning thought of "the stress fractures, the quick collapse, the two of them buried alive under all that weight. Dense, crushing love" (O' Brien 235). Cross was consumed and distracted by ... brought back to life in the power of his stories of her (Tran). The power of salvation from stories is derived from forgiveness, and to tell a story of someone that is to employ good feelings and thoughts of ...

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... deaths and Shakespeare seems to be saying that it is in the end wasteful and tragic that mindless conflict can do such damage. In the historical poems, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' we are given a good idea of how two writers can have different opinions about war ... theme which is constant throughout is one of futility. Wherever in Literature we find conflict, we will almost definitely find futility. In 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' the six hundred know they if they go into battle they will probably not return, so it seems an absurd idea tha...

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... whose opinion deserved to be heard instead of caricatured, even though his side was the losing one. The Americans had three strong aces up their sleeves, and it was with their help that the war was won. Nathaniel Greene started at age 33 and was the youngest general officer, despite being a soldier "for all of six months" and a "foundryman by trade" ... ). This was Washington. This was a man who did not need fame, or money (although he was at the time the fourth wealthiest man in the colonies), or success- this was a man who wanted to do his best no matter what good or bad the world ...

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... (Keshen, pg 259). Families were not prepared to deal with the emotional trauma their loved ones (veterans) were experiencing. So many had immeasurable traumatic memories. The veterans themselves, and their family were not equipped with the skills they need to cope. Men had a difficult time transitioning back into civilian life. Good Housekeeping magazine published articles "telling wives that men would cease ... their remembering in no more than 3 weeks. The Army felt no more than 2 months; in fact it ... ones continued to have flash backs and memories of their time spent over seas. For...

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... are angered at the move and threaten to kill the German soldier regardless if he was let go by the commanding officer or not. This leads to the argument among the band of soldiers who are split in following the orders and letting the German soldier go or killing the German soldier. The argument is taking even further when one soldier says he will walk away from the unit if the soldier is not killed and ... Ryan has helped those people who have seen it come away with a better sense of the atrocities and sacrifice that come with war. There are two main themes that help enlighten the audie...

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... Being homeless can lead a person to suffer from a mental or stress disorder because of nightmares that might come back from all the deaths that occurred in the war. Having nightmares can lead to create hallucinations that will drive a human being crazy. Soldiers sometimes end up committing suicide because ... sometimes do not feel happy about what they have done in battle. By reading The Gettysburg Address, having stressed and mental disorders, suicidal thoughts, and being homeless are big matters of the outcome of being a soldier. When a soldier is fighting in a war, incredible and bru...

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... encounters wounded soldiers. The youth encounters the corpse of a soldier sitting against a tree, and like the boy, he is scared and leaves. He also encounters a procession of wounded soldiers where one particular tattered soldier asked Henry about the battle and his wounds. Embarrassed, the youth losses the soldier as he blends back into the procession. These two ... back and reflect about what he has just experienced. This reflection reminds him of his past ghosts such as deserting the troops and the way he treated the tattered soldier. Like the boy, Henry has gone through an important ...

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... meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Rosewater, for instance, had shot a fourteen year old fireman, mistaking him for a German soldier. So it goes. And Billy had seen the greatest massacre in European history, which was the firebombing of Dresden. So it goes. So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe." Kurt Vonnegut uses a sympathetic tone ... -Five, Vonnegut says that war machines will be the end of the earth. Vonnegut makes up a chemical called ice-nine which represents the atomic bomb, he then writes, "When it fell, it would freeze into hard l...

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... like that, they are even fighting each other for the smallest things such as stale bread. "Camaraderie - esprit de corps - good fellowship - these are words for journalists to use, not for us. Here in the line they do not exist." In the trenches, it's all about survival, about saving your own skin. Even when a fellow soldier dies, they "push" them aside for their personal needs ... . For example, when they divide the sugar into larger amounts or get better conditioned boots off a dead soldier. As much as war is a really bad way to solve problems, it is in some cases, a good thing. A cler...

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... occurs, because Henry fights, he no longer cares about himself but is part of the bigger picture he is a vital part of the "fighting machine-. As Henry forgets about the immature fantasies of a reputation he begins to earn one and quite a good one. Many of the officers are even offering their compliments and praise. Henry's character comes full circle when he let go of his ... solely about one battle where this way he can make it a generalization of all war. 10. Discuss the characters in the novel what is each character symbolic of? There are 7 specific character to discuss. The first i...

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... -term consequences outweigh them by a landslide. Gandhi once commented, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent." The quote describes how even though violence appears to be a viable solution, the benefits are only temporary and will only promote further mayhem. World War I was an international war centered in Europe that began ... was stretched to four years and ended in 1918 when countries of the Central Powers signed armistice agreements. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque describe...

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... . Smith does very well in this novel to get the idea across that though the violence and evil of war should not exist it can make a fundamental change at the ground work of society. This change is not always the worst thing. Though the way in which this change may occur is in no way a good way. The war basically created, like many wars before, a revolution in ... the politics of gender roles and definition. We see during other wars when men go ... sucking, nightmarish horrors that World War I was known for. Smith shows us the horror, not through the eyes of some courageous male soldier,...

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... almost every nation in the world, is the air force. The air force is a vital piece of the military because it can inflict damage on an enemy without the commitment of ground troops. Trying to add the air force to the game would not be plausible because there is no good way to measure the damage inflicted even by the roll of the dice. Every country has the luxury of radar and ... the benefit of bunkers to take cover in. Really the only feasible situation would be that the air force could only attack ... you might not even have enough able-bodied men in your country to form a huge army. ...

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