These soldiers are risking their lives and are getting hurt so others can live peaceful lives. So why not help and contribute back to the soldiers? There soldiers are so badly wounded that they are forced to leave the military early. In doing so, they have a rough time recovering. All they need is some motivation to have the will to go through this recovery process.
In All Quiet on the Western Front the protagonist is Paul Baumer because we experience the story from his point of view and thus we sympathize with him. Paul’s situation is troubling because his life and the lives of other soldiers his age “have become a wasteland” (20). War has changed them and the world so much that they don’t really know what they are going to do once the war finishes. They don’t know any trades; all they know is war. The value of their lives was also changed by war.
Nusrat doesn’t know how much longer she can take the anxiety. But just when all hope is lost, Nusrat and Najmah together find their way home. One of the main conflicts in this book is Man vs. Society, which Staples does a good job of sampling. Near the very beginning of Under the Persimmon Tree, the author included an event that was heartbreaking to Najmah and her mother. Since it was almost time for the war, the Taliban came to Najmah’s household and took her father and brother for war.
HISTORY HOLIDAY HOMEWORK ISHMAEL BEAH- CHILD SOLDIER After watching the interview of Ishmael Beah about child soldier I think that being a child soldier is a hard job. Before being a child soldier, childrens had normal life but then it changes quickly. They got separated from their family. They see war for the first time. There are murders running down with their babies behind their back that have been shot and they didn’t even know cause they were running from this war, fathers carrying their dead sons in their arms.
Nevertheless, he is not as fine as Lyman thought. Even though his brother did his best to help him, Henry could not accept the new awful things he was going trough, therefore he took his own life. Watching someone you love suffering is heart wrenching, especially when nothing can be done to help the situation. Erdrich looks at the trauma of a soldier returning home from war and how their family must cope with his emotional change. The effects of war not only affect the soldier, but also cause an effect on families and loved ones.
Alexia Coyle Research Paper November 23, 2011 AML2020 Treatment of Ours Heroes Few of our family, friends, neighbors, and classmates have given the ultimate sacrifice to their country. They have signed their name on the line and have offered their lives to their country. Sometimes when they return they don’t get the welcome ceremony and exciting surprises like what is shown on the entertainment side of the glamorous war. When returning home from the Vietnam War, veterans were spit on and welcomed home with burning flags and anti war radicals who blamed the soldiers for the war. Now Iraq war veterans are not being welcomed home like Vietnam veterans but are not appreciated by a good amount of Americans.
This story is what I will be telling my kids and grandkids about when they are learning about this war in their history class. New York Times reporter Chris Hedges says, “We forget what war is about, what it does to those who wage it and those who suffer from it. Those who hate war the most, I have often found, are veterans who know it”(War In Iraq). War is started, then often forgot about. We forget what the main purpose of this war is then continue to fight, dragging it on.
She briefly explained that the surprise attack on the South was a strategy used by the North to catch them off guard. I felt some sympathy for the American and South Vietnamese soldiers until they took the two best things from my life. In the following days, my grandma’s days consisted of rubbing our backs, wiping our tears, and making our favorite foods to console due to the death of our parents. She told us how
Their two common interests were to expansion of their territory and neutralization of Soviet Communism. Home-front anxiety:life on the home-front during the war had a big impact on everyone’s lives. People at home were worried about their loved ones and wondering what lives were like while battling against the enemy. Parents were worried about their child, wives their husbands and children their fathers. Things were tensed and depressed.
War is inevitable, there will always be conflicts among people, countries and leaders. War affects children in all the ways it affects adults, but also in different ways. Children are dependent on their parents for care, food, water and shelter. War adversely affects the lives of the children when they lose their parents to the war, lack of opportunity for an education and the possibility of living in a refuge. Children are exposed to situations of terror and horror during wars, such experiences that may leave traumatic impacts upon the children.