Also, each ship arrives exactly six months after it leaves. The purpose of this POW is to figure out if we were on a ship leaving from New York, the number of ships we would meet along the way. When I first started this POW I found it very confusing, and I didn’t understand how to get started on it. I decided to re-write the important facts on my sheet of note paper. I wrote down that one ship leaves from New York and one ship leaves from San Francisco on the first of every month at 12:00 P.M.
However, he was still able to go through his life like that. The quote doesn't apply to All Quiet on the Western Front because Paul Baumer and his friends trusted the officials and this ended up leading to the death of all of them. "... It is impossible to go through life without trust..." This quote does not apply to The Catcher in the Rye because Holden Caulfield, the main character believes everyone is phony and doesn't trust anyone which is a major flaw. Holden’s major flaw affects his life
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.
The protagonist, Krebs is starting story with his typical life. After war is over, he does not want to come back to his home. When Krebs comes back, he wants to share the war experience to people in town but no one want to listen to him because the war is already end a year ago and the stories that been told by other soldiers are more exciting, more thrilling. To grab their attention, Krebs has to lie to them to make his story more interesting. In the story, narrator mentions that, “Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration...” (118).
Appy says of a firefighter who lost his son “He was furious because he saw antiwar activists as privileged and disrespectful snobs who 'insult everything we believe in” without having to share his family’s military and economic sacrifices. In virtually the same breath, however, he said about the war his time, “The sooner we get the hell out of there [Vietnam] the better.”(142) What he meant was he did not think the protestors had the right to speak against the war because they and their families where not the ones being affected whether it be economically or personally such as having to loose a loved one. The working class also felt as if the wealthy politicians were forcing them go to war, but they were not the ones actually fighting in the war. This led to much distain towards the upperclass and had many of them questioning if the war was really worth it. With the working class not being able to side directly with the “hawks” or “doves” it left them without a voice.
In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front the reader can infer that the narrator Paul Baumer as we know him in the novel is very different from Paul Baumer before he experienced war. He had plans to write a play and a love of literature that was lost after experiencing the horror of life in the trenches. It is shown in his apparent aestheticism, inability to fantasize beyond reality, and his lack of faith in the human race. The things Paul experienced truly changed his life. Throughout the novel Paul seems to leave his emotions behind in order to survive.
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.
• How come a soldier is doing such an inhumane thing with such ease? • Why does a soldier feel comfortable taking life? • Robert comes to understand this once he goes through war • Roberts idea of a soldier also changes when he sees Eugene Taffler at the whorehouse being intimate with another man • Questions the masculinity of men in war • Questions why these soldiers enjoy coming to this place • It is not part of their duty as a soldier • Roberts doesn’t see other soldiers living the exact stereotype that he had expected • “We’re all strange, Robert thought. Everyone is strange in war I guess. Ordinary is a myth.” (page 90) • Roberts opinion of these men have changed and matured to a logical idea instead of the impression put onto him by society • All the soldiers are people just like him Thesis Statement: In the novel, The Wars, stereotypical identities are replaced by the truths from war and divided into many levels that show the readers how easily transformed people, relationships and opinions are.
The author characterized him during the time of the awakening as a bit shocked because he never saw this side of the society. The government isolated him and others so they can’t see the real world. Montag was well aware before the scene because when he met Clarisse she made him notice life and actually woke up to society. The reason it is significant is because he never experienced those things and if he did he never actually paid attention because he was so caught up with television and starting fires. He was also concerned with moving fast and being oppressed.
And he tried to give him a drink of whiskey. This man did not know Andy had been stabled because he could see in the night, the blood or the pain Andy was in. This man walked away and left Andy there to die, the time now was 11:39. In Andy’s silent voice he cried for help, but still no one came. Although there was this couple that was trying to stay out of the rain, Freddie was trying to get Angela home on time then he seen Andy lay on the sidewalk, Freddie wanted to help, but Angela didn’t want to help because of the logo on the jacket she knew it was a gang sign.