In paragraph two, when Hanks talks about the change that he goes through and wondering if his wife will even recognize him, he uses a much more depressed state of parallelism. The big mystery that he is in almost plays as a two-faced role, separating his battle experiences from his personal life back home. In the same paragraph, there is also a small quantity of amplification. Hanks says,”But over here it’s a big, a big mystery.” This amplification amplifies the fact that what these men are going through is indeed a life-altering ordeal. When he is talking about his big mystery, he is referring to his dedication to the war.
Nevertheless, he is not as fine as Lyman thought. Even though his brother did his best to help him, Henry could not accept the new awful things he was going trough, therefore he took his own life. Watching someone you love suffering is heart wrenching, especially when nothing can be done to help the situation. Erdrich looks at the trauma of a soldier returning home from war and how their family must cope with his emotional change. The effects of war not only affect the soldier, but also cause an effect on families and loved ones.
Both of these ate away at the men; mind, body and soul. ‘Carry’ means to hold or support while moving, to transport, transmit, or transfer, but figuratively, ‘carry’ connotes bearing a grievance. After Ted Lavender was killed Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried Lavenders burden with him because he felt personally responsible for his death. He was to busy thinking about Martha the one he loved, even though he knew she didn’t love him in return. L.T.
He could not live long, but during the years that he was suffering from his disease, he comprehended that “failure and loss visit us all”, life is not easy and it might seems to be unfair, but we have the right to choose from disheartened or encouraged. One’s attitude is very important when encountering difficulties. In addition, Simmons’s father once stated that “we need a hard road, not a smooth one”, a hard road makes us reflect and see clearer of who we really are. Life is a hard road, people go through loss to reflect and finally to defeat. When people go though the loss, “it hurts terribly, but it heals, and sometimes like a broken bone where it knits, it is stronger”.
7. The effect of the collapsing time in the final paragraph is that it had really emphasized his terror of remembering the war because even though the war was a huge impact part of his life O’Brien fears the memories of it. The rhetorical effect of this irony is that he spent so much thought over going or not going to war that the memories of the war was given no details whatsoever. It was almost not considered as important as the decision. 8.
In All Quiet on the Western Front the protagonist is Paul Baumer because we experience the story from his point of view and thus we sympathize with him. Paul’s situation is troubling because his life and the lives of other soldiers his age “have become a wasteland” (20). War has changed them and the world so much that they don’t really know what they are going to do once the war finishes. They don’t know any trades; all they know is war. The value of their lives was also changed by war.
While “honor” and “self-realization” may be ideological terms often associated with a war cause, “brutality” and “self-scarification” are perhaps more realistic descriptors. The brutal and ferocious atmosphere of war often forces its young soldier constituencies to sacrifice any childish views of life, and mature. Walter Dean Myer’s novel, Fallen Angels, details the tragic loss of innocence of group of young soldiers who, surrounded by the unspeakable horrors of the Vietnam War, are forced to prematurely journey into manhood. Though initially and wholly innocent, the tense atmosphere of war forces Richie Perry and his fellow soldiers to leave behind former romantic views of war and realize its moral ambiguity. A truly unfortunate byproduct
Somebody loses a child, a sibling, a friend. Each person feels the pain and no one’s grief is worse than another. To survive such a hardship the family needs to stick together, helping each other and listen to one another. While it is hard to be strong during such a difficult time, ignoring the hurt and pain of those in need can cause other consequences down the
What is it that people like about Walter Dean Myers? Like Fallen Angels he writes about interesting things. Fallen Angels is a great book, but most people don’t understand the meaning and importance. He talks about the hardships of war & how it affects the characters lives emotionally and physically. Walter also gives a first person point of view of facing war as a young man, and how o cope with deaths and tough struggles.
The enemy is Illusive to the men, it was unclear because they don’t know who the enemy is. They had to cope with the weather, trying to sleep and not get killed at the same time. The feelings of these men mattered because it was like being in a world that hits them directly and it makes them think “aim I going to die?”, “will I get shot?”, “will I be able to go back home?”,. With these thoughts one gains strength, confidence, instinct, and a lot of precaution, Just everything they need to survive emotionally and physically. Being put into war is a very hard job and these men have made it far