Compare the ways the distinctively visual is created in The Shoehorn Sonata and one other related text of your own choosing. War is indeed an unconventional and traumatic experience that anyone would be ruined to endure. These experiences of war can be lived out through memory of hardships and war time acts of injustice and through the post-traumatic stress that is developed due to the experience. John Misto, play writer of “The Shoehorn Sonata” and Wilfred Owen the composer of “Dulce et decorum est”, have both undoubtedly condensed this thematic perception of war and how individuals can live out their experiences. This concept has been achieved through the employment of both visual and language techniques.
It is hard for him to deal with throughout the story because it causes him to think of many different things, not only about what he did, but about the man he killed. No matter what it may be, death was a huge part of the war and one of the hardest things to face and deal with. Whether they spent a day or a year in Vietnam, it changed the soldiers in some way, either physically, mentally or both. Even the men who were very mentally stable found it hard to deal with all the aspects of the war. It was very difficult
Shell shock was a term only associated with World War one due to the major impact it had throughout the war. It was specifically used in Britain to express a psychological breakdown for a soldier from stress and trauma and fear from battles and fighting. It was hard to cure them as people and doctors considered them to be cowards therefore refused to offer help. Some men only received help depending on their high class or rank in the community, while others were even put on trial and even executed for being ‘cowards’. Shell shock caused a lot of problems and casualties for the country and for the war.
This text reveals that inner conflict can be catalyzed by conflict within war and the poor living environments of which many children and families struggle to survive in everyday. Only the strongest soldiers return survivors of war however “We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do.” Living after surviving war is not something every soldier can cope with. Millions of people die fighting a few survive physically however most are affected psychologically or emotionally. Soldiers are stuck with an experience unlike any other known to man, stuck with memories and images of what it's like to be hunted by another man.
Tim O’Brien “ They carried all emotional baggage of men who have got killed and might die” pg.21. It is in my views a emotional struggle to deal with the coping of your fellow troops at the same time you still have to be in the war. It is inevitable to avoid death, but emotional stress to deal with
Owen and Sassoon, as well as being renowned anti-WW1 poets, also had a role as soldiers in the war. Although not together, they both fought against the German army, and knew, better than most, the terrible conditions that WW1 soldiers were faced with. It was probably their first hand experience that made them feel great pity and respect to other ‘ordinary’ soldiers, the ones still fighting, as well as the ones laid to rest. Owen and Sassoon also had a fierce hatred about them towards war enthusiasts feeling that they were sending hard-working men to their deaths and loathing the way that they wrote about the war when they themselves had not seen nor taken part in the war apart from sending people to it. I believe that Owen and Sassoon chose to write poetry about the war as a way to express their feelings as well as a way to express their feelings as well as a way to contradict the propaganda and tell people what was really going on when the sent their relatives to war.
“The Truth of a War” A tragic death of a friend can impact a person’s life in many ways especially when it is personal and heartfelt. Re-telling a story about war and death is hard for any person. It takes memory, courage, and love to correctly express the death of a loved one. In O’ Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” the author makes it seem impossible to express a true war story. The author, O’Brien, seemed to shape the line between truth and story in a different direction.
It may be because there is a stigma about going to get help being associated weakness or maybe soldiers feel like talking about their time during deployment brings up the memories of what they’ve done, seen, or experienced. This is a real social problem that has affected and is affecting most I would go as far as to say all soldiers go through, as well as self medication either through the use a magnanimous amount of alcohol or the use of both alcohol and un-prescribed medication. Soldiers in Mike platoon soon come forward with the truth of the circumstances surrounding Mike death. It seemed that Mike was distraught about what happened while he was driving his humvee in Iraq; Mike was told to never stop driving while on a transport. Regrettably during one of the drives a child strayed into the road and Mike was pressured into continuing to drive.
Title Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried blends the truth of a Vietnam War memoir and the facts of a writer’s autobiography. He combines imagination with reality, all the while meditating on the war, his memories, and the power to redeem oneself through storytelling. The song “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried both The “things” of the title that O’Brien’s characters carry are both literal and figurative. While they all carry heavy physical loads, including steel helmets, boots, guns, ammunition, and flak jackets, they also all carry heavy emotional loads, made up of responsibility, anguish, horror, love, and longing. Each man’s physical encumbrance accentuates his emotional encumbrance.
Men in the Vietnam War go through different actions like being ambushed and attacking the enemy which may make them feel different emotionally. These men deal with everyday death and other horrific conditions of the war. The soldiers in the novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, have been put through emotional and physical situations in and out of the battle field. To keep themselves from breaking into post traumatic stress or any other kind of emotion, the men joke about death instead of letting it have an effect on them, feel misplaced anger, and ponder over memories to help remember good things. When feeling down one may feel a need to laugh and make jokes about the bad or good situations that are happening.