In the beginning chapters of the book, he is eager and looking forward to war. By the end of the book, wishes he had never been involved in the war. A dramatic change took place inside this man between his enlistment and discharge. I read this change to be an extreme form of growing up. Not the form of growing up that most young men these days go through, but the growing up a man does when he watches friends die.
Even after being put in many life or death situations while running from the war without knowing where his next meal was going to come from, where he was going to sleep at, or even if the war was ever going to ever end, Ishmael still kept moving forward until he found his way out of the insane war. In the beginning of the book Ishmael has hope that he will find his family and out run the war. The only thing that gave the strength to keep going was his hopes in leaving the war and looking forward to something good to happen, “When I was little, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen, if there is nothing good left in the density of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going.” (54) This shows that Ishmael was determined to get away and keep on going but later Ishmael begins to lose hope and only expect the worst when he says, “To survive each day was my goal in life. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen. There were nights when I couldn't sleep but stared into the dark night until my eyes could see clearly through it.
He has the same situation like James, his parents divorced, he like to fight with other people to get their respect, never one to be left alone and he about drop out of high school, but I told him to continue study in high school so he can get a better life. Finally, he made it and his father is very proud of him. Sometimes, in life there will be a person that make you have more motivates. For example, the motorcycle boy is James’s brother and he also is a hero in James’s heart. Motorcycle boy is the one who got James’s back when James in trouble, he helps him out and he is the only one beside with James.
Tim O’Brien A Coward In an attempt to relieve some shame and guilt about his involvement in the war O’Brien writes a story about himself that he has never before told anyone, titled The Rainy River. The story starts off at the summer of 1968 when he was 21 years old and was drafted to serve in the army. Before he was drafted, O’Brien had taken a stand against the war by doing things such as campaigning for the presidential campaign of anti-war advocate Eugene McCarthy and writing college newspaper editorials against the war. O’Brien recounts his thoughts on receiving a draft notice, feeling that he was not good for war and should not have to because of his educational accomplishments. O’Brien in the story tries to leave
Fast-talking, fourteen and fresh from boot-camp, Jack Harold Lucas was bound for glory. He was a fire plug of a kid who wanted to fight so badly, that he lied about his age in order to enlist, stowed away on a troopship to get into the war, and was technically missing when he got his first shot at combat. However, this two-fisted punk managed to become the youngest American in history to receive the Medal of Honor. “On February 20, 1945, while fighting Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, the day after the invasion and a week after his seventeenth birthday, Lucas’ life was changed forever.”(Standring Pg.1) Quick to act under fire, Lucas purposely absorbed the shock of two enemy grenades in order to shield his companions. “By his inspiring action and
It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a star, and Drew won't let anyone disrespect his game. Just as his team makes the playoffs, Drew must come up with something big to save his fading college prospects. It's all up to Drew to find out just how deep his game really
Couch Carter pushed the boys to be there best and to be the best they had to learn to run a whole game so carter made them to running all the time. If they came to training late he would make them do 1000 suicides and if they said they “N” word they would have to do the same. Doing the suicides made them fit and they could run a whole game and they started winning. Another way carter inspired the boys was with determination they studied then though the gym was unlocked and coach carter retired from coaching because the parents didn’t want him to coach anymore but the players wanted him to be there coach so he coached they team again so it was like he never
Scipio was now old enough to stand for the Aedileship in 148 BC. The soldiers had also been busy writing letters home telling of the blunders of the present campaign and the exploits of Scipio, and that it is their desire that he be sent back to Carthage as consul. A tribune declared that it is the will of the people and a veto would be used if Scipio was not consul so as a precedent had been set back in the battle of Pylus, a law was repelled for a year and senate declared that ‘Let the laws sleep today’. Scipio was allowed also to conscript and enlist as many volunteers from the allies as he needed [8]. During the election it should also be noted that censors were also elected and the laws were still asleep as L
I use the word resilient because although the doctors, and his parents, and lots of other folks were saying that he can't do this or that; in the end he ended up being successful and completing every task they said that he won't be able to do. 3. How has Doodle’s characterization set the mood for the story? Doodle’s personality set the mood for the story because from the beginning of the text Doodle did things in spite of making his brother and family proud. 4.
(Card 19) Even in the middle of the book when Ender is confiding in Bean, he states that he felt he could not lose any of the battles, for some reason which he did not reveal (Card 197). This drive is so embedded into Ender’s personality that even he can not understand it himself, or it is so personal he can not even reveal it to one of his closest companions while at the school. This gives Ender a passion that soon boosts the rest of his army, and they too come to realize that being good is not enough; they have to be superior. Although these are just three characteristics that explain why Ender is such a great leader, there are many more reasons listed in the