They lived in the trenches which were often water filled and rat infested. The smell of corpses and death was all around. Many of the doughboys were infested with lice or “cooties”, which was probably gotten from the rats. The sound of exploding artillery was heard and those who went “over the top” were often gunned down by German machine guns (The Western Front, 2010). For months these men lived in these trenches without baths, little food and knowing that death or mustard gas awaited them.
He found the lone and deserted shelter with drifted snow sprinkled inside. All was over. He started sobbing. Why did he cry? Was he a weak man?
The day the Scarlet Ibis showed up at their house Doodle died from being pushed to the limit of no end. With the death of Doodle and the Scarlet Ibis there was symbolism. Some of the symbolism includes; they both died in a storm, very fragile and physically challenged, both Doodle and the Scarlet Ibis were not expected to live, and had long thin necks. “He lay very awkwardly, with his head thrown far back, making his
“While being lifted onto an LST, he was almost dropped into the sea, having only been caught by the foot. After laying in the hold with hundreds of other wounded, he finally got a spot on the USS Samaritan.”(Standring Pg.5) Happily, the flag went up on Suribachi, just before Lucas was shipped off to Honolulu. Lucas went under the knife twenty two times before the doctors were finished. “Surprisingly, there are about 200 pieces of scrap iron still in him, some the size of .22-caliber bullets, which to this day, constantly set off airport metal detectors.”(Carpenter Pg.1) After close to seven months, Lucas was in good enough shape to be separated and put up for the Medal of Honor. At the time, the young man did not even know what it was, claimed “I went there to do one thing, and that was to
The reader sees how they are robbed of companionship when Eli writes ‘We were alone’, and how they are further stripped of their humanity when they are forced to have their hair cut, the final thing that strips them of their humanity is when their names are taken away and they are given tattoo’s to be identified by, ‘A-7713’ (pg42), from then on they had ‘no other name’ (pg42). Dehumanization brings out the very worst in people, an example of this is when the people on the train act in a way they normally wouldn’t, and how
The soldiers pulled a wagon and they flung the lifeless body on to it, as if the body had no use anymore. I quickly take my position in the trenches, and in a few minutes I make two new friends I turn to greet them and I am faced with two long haired unshaved, unwashed men who are scruffily dressed in standard issue brown uniform and dirty soiled black boots: called David and William. The enemy were firing bullet at us, then all of sudden I heard a piercing scream, right behind me. I quickly spun over and see William who had been shot. I yelled out saying: “Man down, man down!” William was desperately moving his legs and arms, in an attempt to fight back his pain.
A. Raws of the 23rd battalion addressing his family before his death: “We are lousy, stinking, ragged, unshaven, and sleepless. My tunic is rotten with other men’s blood and partly splattered with a friend’s brains. It is horrible, but why should you people at home know? The horror was indescribable... i want to tell you so that it may be on record, that i honestly believe that a Goldie(a mate) and many others were murdered through the
Everyone had seemed worried and scared. After days of exhaustion and starvation they had arrived at Auschwitz, where the men and women had been separated. The next camp that they arrived at was Buna where they were forced to work. The only thing that the prisoners had to eat was soup and bread, therefore many died. Prisoners were also forced to watch others get hanged.
In the end Victor is left with nothing. He has no friends, no family; he is exhausted and now starving. The monster has left Victor all alone that he considers making him a mate letting the possibility of a progeny real. All that is left to do is for Victor to die himself he has lost his brother, his wife and now his dad all because he created a misanthrope. All though all these deaths weren’t directly victors fault he was the one that created Frankenstein but was to mortified and ashamed to take the responsibility for his doing.
However, this isn't an excuse as to how they were treated, they were stripped naked, men were paired in two's and chained together. They were thrown onto the ships and there was so little room to move about. Everyone was drowning in their own excrement, urine and puke. They were getting ill with whiteman diseases which their bodies didn't know