132 ➢ The flamethrower is a symbol of war. ➢ The flamethrower creates destruction of everyone, just as war does. ➢ Causes grief and panic to the soldiers. ➢ Soldiers who are hit by the flame thrower have a slow torturous death as they are being burned to death. ➢ Humanitarian perspective • Effective way for the Germans to win the battle.
Begone or let us try our strength in a fight in which one must fall” (69) as monster threatened to kill all of mankind if he was not obeyed. The monster’s hatred caused him to threaten to kill because he has no one to share about what he’s going through. The monster threatened Frankenstein as he said, “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred” (104). He’s accepted himself as an outcast as he killed William because people see him no different even if he kills humans or not. As William refused to be his “companion and friend” (102), his hatred grew more that no one could accept him even though he tried to be friendly.
Martin Luther King gave many speeches about racism and how people should not be judged by the colour of their skin, but on the basis of their character. Days later after he presented some of his speeches, his relatives’ houses were lit on fire and were completely destroyed by rebellions. His relatives begged him to stop but he did not listen but continued and kept persevering. Since Louis Riel had given the Provisional Government permission to arrest and kill Thomas Scott, he was labelled as a criminal and was issued a warrant
In the end I believe it turned into a complete anti-military novel as Caputo tried to understand the purpose of the war. The inevitable answer was that America had no reason to be in Vietnam and only put their people at harm as the government ordered them to stay. Before entering the war, the country truly did not understand what war meant. “So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own” (81). Caputo reveals his true feelings throughout the story.
Wilfred Owen Speech War, in all its proposed glory and pride, is a futile slaughter of body and mind. The majority of lost souls sent to fight were much the same age as yourselves. Would you too consider it a futile waste of opportunity and capability if you were to lose your lives now? I fought aside young, innocent men, and together we searched for the ‘Dulce’ and ‘Decorum’ of war amongst the pools of blood and rotting corpses, only to discover that my service to my country was based on a great lie. A lie fuelled by propaganda which drowned the desperate amongst a green sea of choking gas.
Chapter 4 Main events Introduction of the word Conrad: One of the biggest events of this chapter is the introduction of the word Conrad. The narrator talks about the snipers and what will happen to them when they are discovered. He continues on to say “ He will utter that magical word, Conrad; then we will strike him down”. The word Conrad means friend, the Germans are in the exact same situation as them; so the word Conrad shows that they are equal and when used in battle they surrender. However, we learn that the word has no meaning to the soldiers as they would kill the sniper and any German soldier.
King tells how passive misanthropes (someone who hates people), or “smokists” are brutally attacking the society of smokers. Smokers are content to die solitarily, until it was found that second hand smoke can kill. The “smokist” uses this argument, as the basis of their complaint. The “smokist” uses then went on the hunt for smokers; restaurants, airplanes and airports were the initial battlegrounds. Smokers on the run, King explains the consideration the Federal government has given to the plight of smokers.
The madness resulting from the incident was the way in which the soldiers handled this. They make jokes about Ted Lavender’s death, and act as if it was in a movie, separated from reality. Next, they burn down a town and kill all the animals still in it. While seeing something like this on the news would be disturbing, through the context of the author’s perspective we can understand why they do this. They are all afraid of dying in shame, as noted when Tim O’Brien says “They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing.
The three things that affected North Vietnamese, hating Americans, living in harsh conditions and receiving severe injuries were all things they had to deal with during and after the war. They hated the Americans for causing deaths and poisoning land that will now cause problems for North Vietnamese today. The harsh conditions led to injuries which also made them hate Americans. As much as they hated them at that time, they now forgive and try to move forward from what happened. The Vietnam War definitely affected them in a bad way but at least they look into the future and not think of the past.
Everywhere he turns, Winston Smith, the protagonist, is reminded of war, mostly due to the poor rebuilding and clean up efforts. Winston’s existence is affected by the infamous Two Minutes Hate: where citizens are forced to stand and watch an image of Goldstein, a supposed enemy of the Party and chant hatred at it. Billboards as well are plastered with brainwashing slogans of the party, such as “War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, and Ignorance is Strength”. Readers relate to the destruction and impoverishment portrayed in 1984, because of all the destruction evident in, World War I, II, and most recently