They also suffered from shell shock which could take a lifetime to recover, majorly affecting their abilities. They suffered daily as their bravest and best were dying fighting, leaving behind only the most not useful and unwanted soldiers who chaff to go to France for a better life. The source is a form of complaint about their horrible conditions and danger that threatens their soldiers. This letter is written by a leader on the Western front to
In Monster The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member the author, Sanyika Shakur discusses his life and all his struggles. Sanyika did not grow up in the safest area, he was around gangs all the time with no escape, his father was not a good influence and his mother was always working to support the family. Everyone has issues within their lives but how they deal with them is what can help them. Some people let the issues they have to or have dealt with get to them; they let it change them as a person whether that is positive or negative change.
Elizabeth Castillo Mr. Stingo English 3 Honors February 8, 2012 Re-adaptation Crisis Some events can have such impact in life that nothing can ever change things back to the way they were. “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway portrays the crisis World War I veterans went through while attempting to re-enter their old lives. Krebs, the protagonist, clearly depicts the characteristics of the “Lost Generation” which include disillusionment, lack of meaning in life, and the loss of previously inculcated morals and values. The most general characteristic of war veterans is disillusionment, a feeling of disappointment towards society that essentially causes a lack of energy to “live life”. Krebs shows disillusionment in his attitude towards
He is depressed, and in need of someone to talk to and to spend time with. His brother, Allie, was very important to him. When Allie died, Holden was a wreck, and is still affected by it today. He is also mad about his other brother, D.B., for leaving for Hollywood to become a “big time writer.” Holden is severely depressed by prior events in his life, and has no one to turn to for help and advice. In conclusion, the course of events that happened prior to Holden’s attending Pencey had changed who Holden was negatively, and this is apparent in his lack of attempt to become
Treating War’s Toll on the Mind Response Paper – By Aisha Pitt 03/12/2010 In reading this article written by Betsy Streisand it is apparent that thousands of soldiers suffer from Post Traumatic Stress disorder during and after combat. When they suffer from being traumatized during the war, and when they are still in combat, little help is made available to the soldiers and they are soon pushed back into the war before they have the chance to fully heal. When a soldier returns home with PTSD they have the inability to turn the switch from soldier to a regular citizen. They can return with depression and anxiety because they can feel like there is a complete lack of safety for them and their family. Soldiers have a hard time integrating
Paradoxes of the Vietnam War that affected America “But the hospital had changed all that…Now I wanted to know what I had lost my legs for, why I and the others had gone at all.”(Born on the Fourth of July, ) Vietnam soldiers return home and realize they have missed out on a lot. Soldiers are left physically and mentally scarred and no legit reasons as to why. The Vietnam War resulted in serious contradictions that changed America as a nation. The American people were split over whether the war was right or wrong. There was the anti-war and pro-war Americans fighting about patriotism and if the government was right or wrong.
This brother was very affected by the camp and his mind reached a new level. He would not be able to go back home, if they ever got out, and live life as he had before. He needed to get away from the civility of things and join men who felt the same way he did. He chose to leave his family to fight for America in the army, and forsake the life he had previously known. As a Japanese American he was always being discriminated, and denied privileges that Americans got.
This text reveals that inner conflict can be catalyzed by conflict within war and the poor living environments of which many children and families struggle to survive in everyday. Only the strongest soldiers return survivors of war however “We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do.” Living after surviving war is not something every soldier can cope with. Millions of people die fighting a few survive physically however most are affected psychologically or emotionally. Soldiers are stuck with an experience unlike any other known to man, stuck with memories and images of what it's like to be hunted by another man.
They will never be the same person they were before they left for war because what they see, experience and feel will change them no matter how tough they are. When these soldiers come home as a different people, they’ll be treated differently by family and friends, so everyday life will not be the same. Environment will be a change they have to readapt to, and no one will know how to help because no one else knows what they’re
The soldiers are forced to live in horrible conditions, given barely enough food to keep from starvation, and subjected to battle which could take their lives at any moment. “The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen. (Remarque 101)” These entire conditions combine together to leave a deep psychological impact on the soldiers. This psychological impact changes the soldier’s entire lives. For example, when Paul returns home on leave he cannot talk to his mother because he does not know life outside of the war.