In the long journey to come he will experience death, and murder. In his journey Ishmael becomes a child soldier, he now has new goals, staying alive, and killing the enemy separated him from his family. In this book Ishmael tells his experience as a child soldier, the horrors he saw and the things he had to do in order to survive a bloody war. He also tells the difficulty it is to transition from being a soldier to trying to be a child again. This book is a heart breaking eye opener that shows us the horrors that many children around the world are facing.
Kantorek often calls them the iron youth because he describes their efforts as brave and heroic. As a member of the Second Company, Paul has doubts in his choices when his classmate Joesph Behm is one of the first to die when enlisted in war. To make matters worst, Paul’s friend Kemmerich loses his leg and has a slow and painful death. Paul then has the burden of telling Kemmerich’s mom of her son’s death, especially when she confides in him to watch over her son during the war. As the war continues, the leader of the Second Company Himmelstoss is disliked by many of the soldiers because of his harsh tactics and insensible actions.
This event occurs fairly early in the novel (Chapter 6) and is followed by an exploration of his guilt and shame about this desertion. The actual climax occurs in Chapter 12, when Henry receives a wound, his "red badge of courage." Ironically, this wound is inflicted by a fellow soldier who is frightened and fleeing from battle. When Henry tries to stop him to gain some information about what is going on in the battle, the soldier hits the Youth over the head with his rifle. From this point forward, however, things begin to sort out for Henry.
Child soldiers are boys and girls who fight in adult wars missing out on the safe and better childhood. They are children who perform a range of dangerous tasks such as: laying landmines and explosives and acting as decoys when spying on enemies. They are forced to work with violence, in the kitchen making food for the soldiers and some of the children are used as sex slaves. Using children as soldiers creates one of the most atrocious obstacles of the children’s rights and it is simply wrong. 250 000 children around the world are working as soldiers forced to commit violent crimes.
The family was walking their way back home until things took a sudden brutal turn. A cone in one hand and teddy bear in other, she witnessed the entire tragic incident, from her mother being stabbed to death to her father get shot and bleeding unconscious. Although three was an age way too young to remember, and even to this day she would often have nightmares, horrifyingly waking her up from deep sleep, they were too hazy or imperceptible to remember the faces, unfortunately even of her parents.
Xeones begins with the story of his childhood. Son of Skamandridas of Astakos, a city in Akarnania, Xeones' (who was just a regular farm boy) childhood was ruined by raiders of Argives. who were supposed to be Astakos' allies but turned on them by raiding, burning, and pillaging Xeones' city. Xeones' family was killed and he regretted not being able to die along side of them in their defense despite his young age. Xeones had two friends very dear to him during his trials after the raid to survive off the wilderness and seek a new life in a city.
Whenever Chol was introduced to loud noise, my teacher would put her hands over her ears to present a frightened gesture, and to portray a child. From hot-seating Chol, I learnt that Chol had a very rough time and that emotionally he was destroyed. I also learnt that Chol was a refugee and that his home was invaded by soldiers; his mother had gone into hiding and he was alone for quite some time before his uncle came to take him away. He has hopes to become a soldier to beat the ones who turned his life upside down. I noticed that when he spoke of his hopes and dreams, he would become more at ease and that he had set himself a goal or target to help him cope with new surroundings.
The youth are affected by becoming desensitized at an early age; laughing at death, mocking the injured, showing no remorse (Grossman 502). Young adults that had been exposed to this violence at a young age are getting ahold of guns and ammunition killing convenience store owner’s by ‘accident’ (Grossman 503). Their conditioning and reflex motor skills activate, Operant Conditioning, causing stimulus response to assimilate in an impulsive manner. Exposing children to war brutality through media is conditioning them to breed violence. Killing is a trained skill forced upon a man; viciously cycled through younger age groups.
The Stone Boy Isolated by his family, betrayed by the community, and silenced by an accident, Arnold Curwing a child, shot his brother by mistake and his actions touched everyone. In the short story "The Stone Boy" Gina Berriault, walks us through a twenty four hour period of Arnold's toughest time, not the death of his brother, but the neglection by his family and community. What started as a good day for Arnold ended with his world shattered, with him having to grow up. Abandonment is one of the important themes surrounding Arnold in this story. It is first shown through the major scene in the story, the death of Eugie.
In Fear and Faith Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” is a sense of a “wrong turn” story: a family on a car trip attempts to find the childhood home or their matriarch, a seemingly senile old woman, becomes lost and comes to a very horrible end. Readers are astonished by the way the story ends brutally. The Grandmother tells “The Misfit” “Why you’re one of my own children” and touches him on the shoulder. This triggers a kind of automatic horror and shoots her three times. After his partners in crime returns from killing the other family members, he tells them that the Grandmother “would have been a good woman” had there been somebody there “to shoot her every minute of her life.” The two details- the Grandmother’s words to the misfit and his sudden