When he is talking about his big mystery, he is referring to his dedication to the war. It’s almost like he doesn't even recognize himself. As you explore these different figures, you start to develop the sense that Captain Miller is going through a serious identity problem. In addition, when you go from paragraph one to paragraph three, you find aposiopesis. In the first paragraph, regarding the rhetorical questioning with
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.
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.
Also it is man vs. society because of the whole war going on. The author created suspense when at the end the soldiers were going to take Cush away and Johnny told them that the war was over and luckily let him go. I inferred that Cush and Johnny would become friends because whenever two
Because the novel was set in the early years of World War II, a major theme throughout the story is war. Gene somehow created his own private war placing Phineas as the enemy. Although the one event that is the focus of the novel occurs very early on, the book holds the reader's interest until the very last word. It is an interesting novel of the war and a friendship between two boys. Every part of this story is critical to the outcome.
Wilson’s arrogant attitude and outbursts at the beginning of the novel causes Henry to contemplate upon what his actions in battle could be. Once in battle Wilson hands Henry an envelope that he wants delivered to his family, since he believes that his death will be certain. The problem initiates when Wilson returns from battle and asks for it back. Wilson comes back a changed man, a more courageous man, and a man who does not care what others think. Crane in this novel proposes that the meaning of a man is to be one who does not care about the superfluous qualities in life, but rather one who is true to himself and his morals.
The author, O’Brien, seemed to shape the line between truth and story in a different direction. He explains it is difficult to differentiate what actually happened from what seemed to have happened. The author emphasizes that with writing war stories, there comes a complexity to it that most do not understand. The author, O’Brien, is very resentful of the Vietnam War. His past consisted of getting drafted into the war against his
The Fourteen Points Woodrow Wilson Each nation entered World War I for its own mixture of pragmatic and idealistic reasons. In considering their war aims and a possible peace settlement, governments did not anticipate the changes that would occur in this unexpectedly long and costly war. By 1918 various governments had fallen and the United States had entered the conflict. On January 8, 1918, in an address to a joint session o the U. S. Congress, President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) presented his Fourteen Points, a delineation of American war aims and proposals for a peace settlement. The Fourteen Points served as a basis for debate at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and represented the most idealistic statement of what might be gained
The first technique that I will be discussing is rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is a question asked for effect that neither expects nor requires an answer in the poem Exposure there two rhetorical questions and they both go back to Owens hatred of war the first quote is “what are we doing here?” even though the soldiers know they are here to fight for the war they have started to question it due to the fact that they are now facing a new war on which they dislike very much, this new war is the war against the weather the other rhetorical question is “is it that we are dying? ” during the war the soldiers wanted out of the war so badly the wanted to die. The hatred they felt for he war was flowing through there veins “but nothing happened” they were freezing cold and getting shot at by the enemy who would not want out of that? The next technique that I will be showing is repetition.
Chapter 4, pg. 52. This quote is interesting because he wanted to go to war because he didn’t want to feel shame but in reality the citizens of the U.S made him and the rest of the soldiers feel shameful for going into the war. Tim O’Brien uses satire in this quote to show how this one character felt about this