The book Johnny Got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo was an anti-drafting, pro rights book. Through out the book we are constantly reminded of his struggles, lost loves, family and his general thoughts while laying in that hospital bed every day. In the very beginning, he talks about his experiences throughout life; the author is trying to help us feel how normal his life was, and how much he lost from that one tragedy in the war. The reader is meant to feel bad for Johnny, and to think twice about serving in the military. Multiple times through out the book Johnny admits that he would like to die, and goes on to describe his frustrations about his lack of ability to do so.
He has the world record of the farthest sniper shot in the world of 2,100 yards or 1.2 miles of distance. Also has 150 confirmed kills with the pentagon. During his stay in the town of Ramadi he was put on a bounty of $20,000 for his head. The terrorist group “AL Qaeda” had him nicked named as Al-Shaitan that stands for “the devil” due to all the kills he had accomplished. Chris received three silver stars and five bronze stars with valor which is pretty hard to gain in the seals and are very important metals.
The way he describes everything is full of detail and vivid description that can really almost make one feel as if they were experiencing what he was describing. His hopes were that people would read it and realize what will happen to them if they did not convert. The types of words he used were blunt and to the point. They were harsh and real, not skimping out on the detail. This frightened the people of the time because no one knows exactly what will happen in the end of it all, when you die, but no one wants to live a life of hell, pain and torture.
I don’t think that we’ll ever go back.” (Pg.86-87, Remarque)Kropp convinces himself that war does change a man after they come from battle. Nothing feels the same no more after coming back home and all you do and think about is regretting the things you did in your past. Paul even finds himself a different man after this war. “Speak to me- take me up- take me, Life of my Youth- you are care free, beautiful-receive me again- I wait, I wait. Images float through my mind, but they do not grip me, they are mere shadows and memories.
Kyle would wait until the absolute last second before killing any Iraqi because he had to be sure that the person in the scope was in fact malicious towards the soldiers on the ground. Kyle refused to have innocent blood on his hands and went to great lengths to verify every shot he took. Chris Kyle and Beowulf share a similar set of morals that define their actions. They both are not bloodthirsty killers but rather are men who use killing as a tool to protect the people in their care. They refused to allow the perception of any of their kills being murder to fester during their
There is no glory, it is impossible that soldiers sacrificing themselves to attend the whole of war. Harrison despites in the novel that illustrate behavior, survival at any time, thoughts of the soldiers of others; make the reader consider deeply what the ideas the Harrison presents. There is no heroism in the war causing the soldiers have no stake to devote their life, even though they have no experiences to attack in the first bombarment. For axample, in chapter 2 the narrator sign ‘I can find nothing to appease my terror’. Even though the narrtor do not believe in God but also begins to pray”God-God-please.” The soldiers just crawl over in the trenches and finding the safe places even there is no place to avoid the bombarment.
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History is a memoir by American United States Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. With 255 kills, 160 of them officially confirmed by the Pentagon, Kyle is the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history. The book was published by William Morrow and Company on January 2, 2012, and appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 37 weeks. The memoir has sold over 1.2 million copies across all formats, including 700,000 copies in 2015 alone, making it the best-selling book of 2015 so far. It landed atop all the major best-seller lists including the aforementioned The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today and No.
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.
John Wade tried to make something of himself, but his past shooting of a fellow soldier and his “participation” in the My Lai Massacre, came back to ruin him in his run for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He also suffered from flashbacks to his war years and from what seems to be undiagnosed multiple personality disorder. His other persona was his nickname in Vietnam, Sorcerer. This book is a discussion of how soldiers relieve their experiences in war every day of their lives and how they can influence all aspects of their lives, from jobs to
The stories may simply be a form of release for the soldier telling them. Tim O’Brien, Vietnam veteran and author, in “How to Tell a True War Story”, explains to us the logistics of a true war story. He explains that a war story is never moral, cannot be generalized and that the point, if any, may not hit you until later in life and that in the end the story is never really about the war, it’s much deeper.