Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes In this story you are taken back to the time period of World War II at the beginning of the story you are Introduced to one of two main characters Dietrich Hedrick who is a Hitler Youth recruit who is determined to prove himself to the German leader Adolf Hitler, as you go on through the story you meet Spencer Morgan who is 16 and determined to do as his older brother and fight in the war but instead of a sailor as a paratrooper. As Dieter (a.k.a Dietrich) Grows up he also ranks up going from Jungvolk-“Young People” to Hitler youth to ending up a infantry soldier for the Nazis. As a youth Dieter always looked up to Hitler as if he was always honest and right but as he progresses in the story he soon learns that it was all a mistake and that his partner in the war Corporal Shafuer was right and that Hitler was only trying to take over the world instead of making it better. In Spence’s (Spencer) case he went through basic training and was shipped all over the US until he finally was deployed to an English base just outside of the war afraid that he will miss the war before he finally gets into action. As both boys go through the war Spencer being only seventeen and Dieter only being sixteen they start to realize what they could have done instead of go to war how their families and home life seemed so good compared to sleeping in foxholes in the middle of a European winter wondering if they will live to see the next day.
This paper will be on comparing and contrasting the similar and different characteristics of the short stories Paper pills by Sherwood Anderson written in 1919, and Stockings written by Tim O’Brien in 1990. Paper Pills is about a man named doctor reefy, who marries a beautiful young women and likes to write down little notes of truth and make his own little pyramids of truth, just so he is able to tear them down. Also, twisted apples play a big role in Paper pills which you will find out later in the paper. Stockings is about a soldier named Henry Dobbins in the vietnam war who wears his girlfriends pantie hoes around his neck because he believes that they will protect him. The short stories Paper Pills and Stockings share similar characteristics when it comes to how the author portrays coping with a loved one departing.
Jenner found that the boy fell ill to cowpox but after recovering, he was immune to smallpox thus the method of vaccination was born. This discovery was important as it was an improvement on the previous method of inoculation. Inoculation involved deliberately infecting someone with the desired disease but death rates were extremely high as a result of this practise. However Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccination meant that more lives were saved because there were fewer deaths associated with the vaccination technique and it became more popular than inoculation - eventually becoming a widespread method of disease prevention as it is still in use today. The factors of enquiry and science & technology played an important part in the build up to the development of the smallpox vaccination.
(2) To accomplish this, boys will often play in an abandoned farming plot, where they will “attack” each other with grass spears, safely emulating and practicing the real and dangerous attacks they will later undergo as grown men. While staying active and busy during the day, the Dani are not usually found away from home at night. A major component of their culture lies in their belief in ghosts of the dead, especially those that have died in battle. (3) They strongly believe the frontier in
Trench Warfare World War One was a horrific event, the number of known dead sits at about eight million people. The main method of combat during the first world war, also known as the Great World War, was trench warfare. Trenches were dug mainly to protect troops, but ended up being one of the major reasons so many men died. These men had to live through miserable times, daily life was filled with horror, and death. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when they weren't under attack, many would die of disease.
Children would generally only have the street to occupy themselves with, because they did not have big enough backyards. Plot: The story is based around a character called Charlie Feehan, 15 year old, who is left like “a father” in charge of his family due to his father passing away when he was young. Ma is still breastfeeding Jack. Charlie starts running and finds himself having a job with the all known Squizzy Taylor who is a gangster. He runs, day and night.
In the book, when Gorge finds out that Lennie is carrying a dead mouse with him, George takes it and throws it across the irrigation ditch. Unlike the movie, the novel starts out with George and Lennie at the camp site. It is also way for peaceful in the novel than in the movie. In the novel, the author shares with us that Slim has a thing for Curley’s Wife. Also in the novel, when Lennie flees from the ranch to the camp site to hide, he hallucinates by talking to Aunt
But it was jus’ a dead mouse an’ I was on’y pettin’ it. Then suddenly I made George upset ‘cause I said I liked them beans with ketchup an’ that I would like rabbits ‘cause they ain’t that small. He told me that I’m way too irresponsible for any kind of animal an’ he told me how happy he would be without me. He also told that I ain’t gonna say nothing tomorrow. An’ that I need to hide in the bush if I get in trouble.
The author also had the characters using the “B” word a lot when they were talking about Curely’s wife and the mother dog. The language also tells you the time period the characters are set in. The last important thing that I chose was repetition. They repeated words and sentences quite a few times; they said them over and over in the book. Lennie said the word “rabbit” because he wanted a pet rabbit and it symbolized him and George getting their own farm.
For doctors during the Civil War this was a complete blessing. Before morphine, an injured soldier would have the wounded area amputated. They couldn’t perform surgery with a completely conscious patient. The Civil War era was a time of incomplete scientific knowledge. There were more blacksmiths than doctors.