Its not like being shot its way worse. ➢ Robert Ross was on the lines of the battle when the Germans used the flamethrower. ➢ Using the flamethrower also has an affect of the other soldiers who see there partners or team being burned. Just like Robert witnessed it. ➢ It causes them horror as they are seeing someone being burned to death in agony yelling about the pain they are in.
Charles Yale Harrison’s novel “Generals die in bed” directly depicts the catastrophic dehumanization of soldiers in war through each and every one of his characters. Dehumanization is the process of losing altruistic or individual qualities, as may occur in some psychotic states or in environments that produce emotional trauma and may be influenced by external forces. The environment and external forces in Harrison’s novel were the trenches. From the beginning of the novel the men are normal civilians, with morals and righteous beliefs who show great respect for their fellow man. Yet soon after they are stationed on the western front these men are transformed into barbaric killers whom resent and show very little mercy for their fellow man
Critical Lens Essay Existing problems in society terrorize people and cause them to realize their surroundings. Theodore Roethke once said, “In a dark time, the eyes begin to see.” In times of trouble and conflict, people begin to exhibit caution and awareness more often. For moments such as these, accusations are thrown around. This quote is supported by a number of pieces of literature. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, portrays this statement through the slaughters done by Macbeth the main character.
Another type of imagery that appears in both poems in the description of the war itself and the imagery used reinforces the brutality of it, so is the aim of both poems. ‘the sob and clubbing of the gunfire’ and ‘the steaming Chow Mein’ as descriptions of both the landscape and the action of killing produces vivid images in the reader’s head to evoke a certain emotion that the poet is trying to convey. Dogs are used in various parts of Bruce Dawe’s homecoming to personify the mourning experienced by the families and friends of the soldiers, the homecoming jets are ‘whining like hounds’ and as they land and dogs ‘raise their muzzles in mute salute’ as a sign of respect and sorrow. The imagery used in both homecoming and beach burial is an important tool for reinforcing the powerful messages behind each poem and making sure the reader comes away having truly understood what the writer is trying to convey. “Beach Burial” by Kenneth Slessor and “Homecoming” by Bruce Dawe both explore the themes of the
The author uses events that really happened in the Civil War to bring home the brutality of war--the building of a wall with dead bodies, young men shot in the stomach being left to die, horses being killed to feed starving men. These events must change the men involved. When Charley leaves for Fort Snelling, he is a smiling, fast-talking boy. Once Charley returns home, he is a different man-a broken man, in constant pain, unable to hold a job, and looking forward to his own death. Narrative
130). By emphasizing the death of this man consistently throughout the chapter, it pin point the agony he felt once he killed basically a man who was not fit for war. Through the constant descriptions of the dead body, it shows the emotional truth behind the feeling of killing a human being and from that readers can understand the anguish of taking the life of another person. These soldiers also had to endure killing people “because they were embarrassed not to” and the men had to sacrifice themselves so “they died so as not to die of embarrassment” (21). In “The Things They Carried” chapter, O’Brien goes in to great detail to tell every little thing each soldier carried and a major thing they carried was the feeling of honor and to die a man.
The dreadful reality of death in war is present within the story, “The Things They Carried”. The story makes it obvious that the Alpha Company Squad was deeply moved by the effects of war. Lieutenant Cross, took the death of Ted Lavender personally and struggled with it. There are a couple symbols that we can take from Ted Lavender’s death. The reader of “The Things They Carried” can become engrossed it the story and become easily moved.
The soldiers pulled a wagon and they flung the lifeless body on to it, as if the body had no use anymore. I quickly take my position in the trenches, and in a few minutes I make two new friends I turn to greet them and I am faced with two long haired unshaved, unwashed men who are scruffily dressed in standard issue brown uniform and dirty soiled black boots: called David and William. The enemy were firing bullet at us, then all of sudden I heard a piercing scream, right behind me. I quickly spun over and see William who had been shot. I yelled out saying: “Man down, man down!” William was desperately moving his legs and arms, in an attempt to fight back his pain.
Death is embedded in every chapter and is used to show the destructiveness of a war. As an anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five shows how destructive wars are by showing the endless “slaughter” of the soldiers, and civilians in the path of the war,
The man that O’Brian killed had many many facial wounds, and was badly disfigured because of a grenade that was thrown at him. O’Brian spends a lot of time observing the body of the man that he killed. He pictured his family, his parents and what they did for a living. He is overcome with guilt after killing this man. O’Brian’s platoon mates try to get him to talk about what he had done, but O’Brian does not respond to them.