Development Through Lists and Repetition In The Things They Carried The Things They Carried is a story by Tim O’Brien that is comprised of many short stories that all come together to tell a winding tale from many viewpoints of one war story through the Vietnam war. The first story in the book, also entitled The Things They Carried, is literally a story about what the soldiers carried with them, both physically and emotionally. As an introductory story to the entire novel, O’Brien uses the opportunity to introduce the setting and characters in a very non-traditional way. O’Brien uses lists and repetition to show how tedious each day of work is for a soldier, but also how the soldiers perceive what is to us extraordinary as a normal day’s work. The lists also describe the emotional baggage each soldier carried, such as First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s (the leader of the squad) love for a girl back home.
People knew of his childhood and it provided many fable-like experiences that was used in his works. He affected readers from diverse cultures, the stories reminded people of there own childhood. When people wrote to him they would always start with "Dear Leo" instead of Dr Buscaglia, because they felt as if they were friends. He would always tell people when they referred to them-self as fans, he would say fans are fickle and will drop you something else, be a friend instead, you can always count on a friend. During World War 2 he served in the United States Navy in the dental section of a military hospital helping to reconstruct shattered faces.
Using the first-person point of view in the novel, the author makes readers feel as though they are experiencing the protagonist’s personal feeling and thoughts about particular people or scenes. For example, when he is attending the opening ceremony of his father’s orphanage, Amir says that he” wished they’d all died along with their parents” (19), and this personalized emotion clearly depicts his strong desire for his father’s love and attention. Also, the writer uses this literary device to enhances the ability of the reader to follow Amir’s epic journey from childhood to his adult self. Therefore, the reader directly perceives Amir’s emotions and thoughts transforming throughout the novel. Amir starts off as a loving and caring person—when Hassen is insulted by the soldiers, “I reached across [Hassen’s] seat, slung my arm around [Hassen], pulled [Hassen] close.
he was the childhood sweetheart, and what more does he want?---came home from somewhere, found her, and called the ambulance” (22). By doing this he lets us know how jealous he is and that his contempt towards him is immense. We get a closer look into his mind, his thoughts towards this ex-husband of his wife’s and by doing this he’s also telling us how much he loves her and that maybe some of his dislike for the officer is transferred to Robert because he’s another important man in his wife’s life. There are also moments when he shows a devil-may-care attitude when he talks about Robert’s past and we get the feeling that he doesn’t much care for it. He writes “It was a little wedding---who’d want to go to such a wedding in the first place?---just the two of them, plus the minister and the
Readers can also see its emergence in Regeneration on page 128, as Billy Prior propositions his new love interest by stating he "always paddles with me boots on," a reference to the fact that he, as an army man, always wears contraception when having intercourse. With this background, we can now see how Pat Barker uses this brief cultural reference to remind readers of the history of contraception for both men and women during the war and to suggest how people can find emotionally fulfilling and loving personal relationships through sex, a main theme in the novel. Many men during the war were soldiers. With the constant travel and movement of their platoons, soldiers did not stay in one place or, for that matter, with one girl. Consequently, during the First World War, condoms were handed out to soldiers as a preventative measure against the spread of venereal disease (Robb 65).
The poem is about the life of a young man who went to war with the idea that that it was a brave and noble act and upon returning home he would be showered with thanks and parades on his bravery. However, the soldier comes back with both his legs amputated and his arm. The third person narrative of the poem makes the poem impersonal but to an extent that Owen's audience can sympathize and maybe even some can relate to the disabled soldier. The story of the soldier's life is put down in chronological order in which the poem starts with how happy he was when "Town used to swing so gay.." (Line 7) to when "There was an artist silly for his face, For it was younger than his youth, last year..." (Lines 14-15). The soldier's reminiscence of the past makes the reader pity the soldier as he was a youthful and lively young man who was innocent in the sense that he was living a vibrant life,
This pathos describes how Lincoln would care for his people and how he would put the task of helping the people suffering from the war first, serving as a strong pathos since it is not only emotionally affecting his people, but also encouraging and giving them hope. The war destroyed millions of families. Lincoln in the first place gave his attention on healing the people and their families, instead of describing how beautiful the future would be and giving unrealistic assumptions This pathos and ethos made people, no matter the North or the South, to feel that they are in unity. Both sides were suffering the same war and urged to end it, while they shared a same religion. God plays an important role to connect the people together, which enhances Lincoln’s credibility in his speech besides his position as a president and occasion of this speech.
One reason could have been the way the negative effects of war show through the use of Irony, Symbolism, and Metaphors. To introduce, Remarque uses irony to show the theme of the negative effects of war. To illustrate, Paul and his friends get extra rations. This is ironic because the only reason they get these extra rations of food and cigarettes because a lot of others soldiers just died up at the front. Instead of mourning for their fellow soldiers, they just try to get more food.
Wilfred Owen was an active soldier during WWI, who used his horrific experiences during the war to write his poems. His poems stemmed from his views on war, as he believed that although war was sometimes necessary, it was futile and evil. Two of his poems, ‘Exposure’ and ‘Disabled’ both reveal the price paid by soldiers during WWI. ‘Exposure’ examines the more psychological effects on the soldiers and is written from the view of the soldiers on the front line, ‘Disabled’ shows the aftermath and repercussion of fighting in WWI and the physical damage it caused. The first word in ‘Exposure’ is ‘our’ and is written in first person plural, showing the reader that Owen wanted to convey the plight of the universal soldier and how they all suffered the same fate, no matter their side.
Anthem For Doomed Youth is a sonnet written by Wilfred Owen about the realities of war. Wilfred Owen was a soldier during WW1 and therefore understands fully the true experiences of war. He was against war and was appalled by the effects of war on people and their families. The purpose of the poem is to inform the public of the true realities of war and how young men where dying needlessly. This was because during war times the media would tell the public that the war going great and that the men where doing just fine, but this obviously just wasn’t true.