Both soldiers and civilians blame the defeats in the war and the growing crises on the home front on Tsar. Even the Tsars only army stated it wouldn’t support him if a revolution occurred. Explain the importance/significance of World War 1 to the downfall of the Tsar WWI was a very significant event on the rule of Tsar Nicholas 11. Although it initially bolstered his position, it then became a large factor that contributed to Nicholas’ downfall. The Country was ecstatic when the Tsar made the announcement that Russia was going to fight against Germany in WWI.
Because of all this, the young men of Germany enlist in the army the moment they turn eighteen. They do not stop and consider whether they agree with the reasons for the war being fought but enter blindly into the war with glorified ideas of bravery and patriotism. “But what I would like to know…is whether there would have been a war if the Kaiser had said No…well, if not him alone, then perhaps if twenty or thirty people in the world had said No. (Remarque 203)” Nothing could prepare them for the horrors of the war. Once they enter the war, the soldiers stop and consider the reasons for it being fought and whether it could have been prevented.
The story is presented in a first person point of view, but the narrative stance is actually subjective because the narrator exhibits no self-pity in this critique of war. The opposition is outside the story, because it is a satire. The opposition is the deterioration and contamination of the humanistic schools in Germany by the Nazi party, and their destruction of youth to further their own agenda. The story is moved forward by the narrator’s attempts to figure out if he’s in his old school, a classical studies gymnasium, and how he was hurt. As he is moved around, he takes in his surroundings to see if any of it is familiar, and in this process he illustrates the opposition and message of the story.
The film conveys with some visual power, the effect of the blast and destruction and suffering of the people. Besides all the good qualities of the movie, it is unfortunate that the title of the film will cause confusion for years to come as it shares the same name of a fine and very reliable non-fiction book about the Halifax Explosion: Shattered City by Janet Kitz. According to the sources listed in the bibliography, there is no evidence of German spies in Halifax in World War I during or before the explosion. The Film tells us that there were no surgeons and only two makeshift hospitals until the Americans arrive of trains. There were actually a half dozen hospitals operating the day of the explosion.
The memoir The Forgotten Soldier tells a story of a soldier, which in many points of view, was fighting on the wrong side. Guy Sajer is a Nazi soldier in World War Two, half- German and half- French, one of many who fought for Hitler and the inspirational New World Order. Guy starts out as driver and guard of supplies for those at the front. His first experience of hardships as a soldier is when he gets an understanding of Russian winters. Bone chilling temperatures of forty below zero, guard duty and other simple tasks asked of him become
If America was truly angry about Germany harming innocent civilians, why did not the declaration of war follow the sinking of the Lusitania immediately? To say that America has to go to war against Germany because of the Lusitania is like saying a person fighting her best friend over something that happened two years ago which the person herself had provoked. It is not a valid reasoning to which why war is unavoidable, because it is
Chester Chan 29 November 2011 Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, is story of the bombing of Dresden, from living through it, and his attempt at an anti-war book. Once when he discussed his plan for writing with a movie-maker, he was asked, “Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” (Vonnegut 3) Vonnegut knew how daunting a task it was to write this novel, and even when he was done, he told the publisher, “It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.” (Vonnegut 18) The name Slaughterhouse Five is for the slaughterhouse in which he was locked up in during the massacre, and alternately titled, The Children’s Crusade to prevent from giving war a glamorous image
Briony in the war Hospital, Robbie at Dunkirk, and Stephen and Keith playing their war games. With Robbie and Uncle Peter fighting in the war the lives of all the other characters are affected in both books. This was common during the war as nobody was exempt from service. In both novels the war seems to fuel the misperception, so would the misperception have continued for so long had it not been for the war? Stephen and Keith would not have had the setting in which to accuse Mrs Hayward of being a German spy.
M L C Prof. Ibrahim ENG 101 February 17, 2014 ExplainingTrue War Stories War is not a place for the light hearted or a place for people with a soft stomach. In the end, war is really a battle between beauty and ugliness. A real war story is rarely a story at all, just a sequence of events that lead to the narrator thinking about all they have lost. In the chapter “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, the author uses vivid imagery and symbolism to illustrate the underlying theme of the chapter “war is hell” and true war stories very seldom end with a happy conclusion. The author describes the deep friendship between Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley and how everything in a single second can be taken away.
In other words, the moral issues to not use nuclear warfare fails to meet the argument for dropping the bomb and changes the subject from the immediate decision to the long-term consequences of the decision (Truman Library). But even if one grants the point about fear of annihilation, it is not clear that the world has fundamentally changed nor that the whole world is always in danger of nations from time immemorial. For example, ancient Rome sacked Carthage, plowed it under and salted the earth (Sherrow 72). Medieval and modern religious wars have annihilated millions. More recently, there was Hitler's genocidal six-million-death final solution to the Jewish problem, and the Communists' ten of millions of mass murders continue to this day.