... in her red red krovvy, her platties all razrezzed real horrorshow," is translated into "smiling guys viciously assaulting a young woman who was screaming while lying in her own blood, her clothes beautifully torn up," the masked violence becomes naked. Language both disguises and reveals. Its significance goes well beyond an external and superficial effect (Olsen 115). When the mask is removed, or ... torn off rather, one is, "Drawn into Alex's language, the reader enters his world of images and values, where there is no word for pity or compassion-(Olsen 115). Here, the ... elders of...

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... , the then India. The famine of early '50's is the direct outcome of their war and negligence of India. Scarcity of daily commodities, clothes pushed the common people of this region towards the endless miseries. The scarcity of clothes was such that many women of village were confined to their home and could not go out as they had no clothing to ... they had nothing to cook and to feed their sons and daughters the sufferings of those mother is best illustrated by T.S Eliot in his Waste Land, a living portrait of war-torn Europe, where the poet says: "What is that sound in the air/ Murmu...

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... also have a specific way of dressing for men and women. Men wear a yarmulke on their heads or skullcap with a black and white uniform. Women have to dress modest by wearing clothes that cover their chest and legs to not drive attention from others. Factors like these show that Jews want to separate themselves from other cultures and at the same time ... soul, meaning he was simply dead internally. Also by using "he", it shows he feels detached from his corpse. He manifests that he feels his identity has been torn off, and acts as if there are two different beings. All his faith in God, ...

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... of filthy clothing and causing men to itch unceasingly. Even when clothing was periodically washed and deloused, lice eggs invariably remained hidden in the seams; within a few hours of the clothes being re-worn the body heat generated would cause the eggs to hatch. Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever ... blame me for a feeling of pride. Perhaps some will say that you should not be allowed to go yet - that you have homes, mothers, fathers, that you should not be torn away by your fathers so forgetful of the...

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... rather expected of them" (Pg. 185). The government looked to women to persuade men to join the army. Patriotic organizers told women to keep their distance from men in civilian clothes, and to disgrace civilians on the street by giving them a white feather, a symbol of cowardice and dishonour. Government and industry also needed women to replace men in many lines of ... and sent them. Some cards were humourous but at often times, were stereotypical and racist. Similarly, many wartime artists emerged and captured the feelings and attitudes of people in war-torn England. Most war songs we...

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