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Hemingway portrayed his characters as heroes, but they all in someway dealt with the perception of death. Hemingway himself said, "My favorite characters are men who deal in death and accept its risks". To understand why Hemingway wrote about death in his writings, one must try to understand how the events in Hemingway's life formed this style and temperament, which gave birth to this obsession of death. (Leff, p.54) Because Hemingway's relationship with his parents was not good, it caused him to run away from home twice. Hemingway then became a vagrant on the American road. After living as a vagrant for a couple of years, the U.S. in 1917 entered World War I. Hemingway tried to enlist, but was rejected because of a bad eye. But why would Hemingway enlist and put himself in war. Many Americans would pray that they would not get themselves drafted into the war. And yet even though Hemingway was not drafted, he voluntarily enlisted, and was lucky they did not accept him because of a bad eye. But that didn't stop Hemingway from going to Europe in World War I. He decided to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross. He basically put himself into bloody battles where he could of gotten himself killed. Hemingway managed to get himself severely injured, for which the Italians honored him with the Italian Al Valore Militare medal. Over a hundred steel fragments were taken out of his leg. When his leg was almost blown off Hemingway said, "I died then". It almost appears as if Hemingway wrote about characters that in some way or another deal with death because Hemingway himself wanted to die. (Baldwin, p.657) After the war in Europe was over Hemingway returned to Key West, Florida. There he wrote several other books which included, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, and Green Hills of Africa. But it seemed that Hemingway felt dissatisfied about himself. In Africa he hunted with very rich people who were dull, drank too much, and played too much backgammon.
Assef who is a Taliban soilder give proof of this discrimination first hand. ... In The Kite Runner, The protagonist Amir is taught a different way of looking at Hazaras in school and in the outside world, than he is taught at home. Throughout the story Amir's teachers, the Taliban soilders and the Sunni society (Amir's religion) discriminate against Hazaras. ... At home however Amir's family shelters tow Hazara servents, a father and a son. ... This is why the different degrees of racial tolerance at home and at school confuse Amir's thoughts. ...
The movie began during D-Day, in which many soilders were killed on Omaha Beach. ... He beleives he doesn't deserve to go home and wants to complete his last mission which is to supervise a significant bridge on Merderet, until the American reinforcements come. ... Ryan was sent home to his mother in Iowa. ...
It was a war where our soilders would smoke marajuana in the jungles. ... The Vietnam War was the first war that Americans were actually able to watch on their home television. ... Back on the home front there was also killing going on. ... He started the Vietnamization which when we sent our troops to equip and train the South Vietnamese to take over fighting so U.S. troops could come home. ...