Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.” (Ban Ki-Moon) The human rights issue addressed in this quote is one that the whole world is facing and has been facing for millennia. Poverty is the state of being poor (Meriam Webster’s Dictionary). George Henderson wrote a whole paper on what poverty is; he explains what it is like to live in poverty. He uses a lot of colorful adjectives to describe it. An example of some of the things that George Henderson says in his paper about poverty is, “Poverty is staying up all night on' cold nights to watch the fire knowing one spark on the newspaper covering the walls means you’re sleeping child dies in flames.
After witnessing the heart wrenching death Paul states “I become faint, all at once I cannot do any more. I won’t revile any more, it is senseless, I could drop down and never rise up again” (32). Paul soon goes on to witness many more deaths causing sadness and annihilation to become a big part of his life. Soldiers get so use to seeing others die they become oblivious to the fact that each individual’s life is to be held sacred and that they only get one. In the book Paul feels that they have no reason to be fighting and that they have been abated to beasts just trying to protect themselves from others who are doing the same.
Weary and travel worn, Red returns home to Dampier after years of grieving, much to the delight of the town. It is surrounded by these people that Red Dog drifts away, making his final act leaving his makeshift hospital room to lie down at the feet of his master’s headstone, never to leave again. Sad yet heart-warming, with plenty of comedy, Red Dog is a film that should be in every collection. A story for the books to be told again and again; a story we can all believe in. It reminds us about faith, hope and unyielding love.
O’Brien writes “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing-these were intangibles, but intangibles has their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.” (108) Death changes a solder. Cross’s solders all told jokes after the death of Ted Lavender. This was their way of making themselves deal with the loss of a close friend and soldier. “Zapped while zipping” (107) is what they all said because Lavender died while returning from going to the bathroom.
‘as a green sea, I saw him drowning’ in stanza 3 the poet has a recurring nightmare of the soldier he saw dying in agony, a sight that will stay with him forever. In the last stanza, stanza 4 the poet attacks the people at home who do not realise the reality of war and the suffering of the soldiers. “My friend ....” is aimed at an author who writes children’s fiction who glorifies war. He could see the sights especially this soldier who is dying from inhaling gas writhing in pain this is because he couldn’t get his mask on quick enough. Route March Rest is the Second World War poem I am going to compare.
Instead of focusing on the battle zone and seriously leading his team, Cross has his mind lost in obscure and intimate thoughts about her. Throughout the story, he keeps grieving and blaming himself for the death of his fellow soldier. The author realistically describes the moments of anxiety usually experienced by actual soldiers. Such moments could be observed In the case of Lieutenant Cross crying out of his passionate love at nights to Martha. Martha, in turn, described as a loyal girl waiting for Cross to come back, is only illustrated in the memories of Cross.
Night Essay Night by Elie Wiesel tells the terror of what the prisoners had to go threw in the concentration camps during World War II. The book proceeds to show how many prisoners lost their faith in God. There are many examples in this book where people are trying to keep their faith but finding it hard to do so with everything going on. People are rebelling against God and their religion. Night shows how difficult holding onto and using their religion to survive was.
These feeling are expressed in the story about Rat Kiley's letter, with which the chapter is started - with his feelings of grief about loss and final «cooze», because he was not written back and he could not cope with his loss. His pain is shown in the shoking story of shooting baby buffalo. However, all these stories might have never happened, the soldiers were fighting the war and facing blood, troops and losses, struggling because of their youth and immaturity, fear that cannot be ignored about war. This terrible experience of war is the only truth that author wants to make the readers understand in his
Eric Bogle’s poem, The Green Fields of France, depicts the detrimental effects of war on individuals and the society. The use of hyperbole in, “The killing and dying was all done in vain…whole generation that were butchered and damned,” reflects how the society was ripped apart due to the death of loved ones, which lead to an unhealthy community. It further explains that families had to go through so much grief and anxiety for a war that did not achieve anything. Likewise, Bogle demonstrates the pointlessness of the war. “…Did they really believe that this war would end wars…it all happened again, and again, and again,” this use of rhetorical question and repetition emphasises the anti-war sentiment that both Bogle and Dawe capture.
I. Imagine an existence consumed by violence and despair. The Sunflower delves us into this existence through the eyes of the author, Simon Wiesenthal. Imprisoned in a Jewish concentration camp, Wiesenthal endures a nightmarish day-to-day existence, having lost everything including faith in human morality, and the existence of a merciful god. After witnessing countless murders of innocent people, Wiesenthal has lost all hope, searching for any sign of symbol that would restore it, stating that “at that time we were ready to see symbols in everything.