The novel shoes the misery of war and the everlasting effects it has on the soldiers; even Baumer cannot escape those circumstances. Before the war Baumer was a nice, empathetic, and gentle person but the war has him almost disconnected from his feelings. He becomes numb to the evil surrounding him. His friends are quickly lost to the cruelty and horror of war. Some died a quick death while others died a slow, painful death, showing the reality of war.
The Fallen by Laurence Binyon and The Soldier by Rupert Brooke are two poems with several similarities, though they are not without their differences either. Both poems are about World War One and the death of those involved. The Soldier, which focuses mainly on imagery of landscapes, while The Fallen focuses more on the imagery of the people in the war. The content of both the poems is the way in which death caused by war is dealt with. The difference is that The Soldier is set before anyone has died, and The Fallen is set after many have been killed.
After witnessing men die in horrific ways as well as those who were then unable to enjoy life because of their disfigurement caused by the war, Paul realizes that the deaths of these soldiers were nowhere close to glorious or brave as many depicted it to be. As Hitler stated, “And this action is the only one
One British soldier wrote of how “despite the flag-waving that greeted us [Britain's returning troops] many felt nothing but hatred for the leaders and those back home who'd sent us to die.” Both novels, “Regeneration” by Pat Barker and “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Marie Remarque discuss how the brutalities and horrors experienced at war have left the men who fought in it feeling alienated and ostracised from civilian life. It is as though the war has somehow consumed their whole beings leaving them forever tainted by the corruption of war and separated from the society that forced them to make this personal sacrifice.
The subject matter of this poem is the difficulties young soldiers face but in the end, they only receive sarcastic cheers from the crowd and they clearly don’t know the trenches they had lived in. The mood of the poem is very negative towards the war because it talks about how the war takes away the innocence of the young soldier. In the beginning of the poem, it started out to be carefree and innocent when the boy was still enjoying life until later on, he realizes the hardship he had to face in the trenches. The mood gradually becomes gloomy and dark and the surroundings were just too terrible for a simple boy to tolerate. “Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, and whistled early with the lark.” It describes the place where he was, to be unbearable and a terrible condition for a boy to be in.
We lost too many lives because of war. This message show that “Blowin’ in the Wind” is an anti-war song because Dylan shows his helpless toward war issues. On the other hand, Vedder writes, “Unsealed on a porch a letter sat.” The letter refers to government sends out a telegram to families of died soldiers. Vedder use the letter as a symbol of lost lives. Moreover, war only brought sadness to people if they lost their families in war.
Wade Berrigan 5-26-07 The Moral Ambiguity of War In the novel Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Meyers, shows us many examples of soldiers struggling between making morale choices or staying alive. New soldiers look at other soldiers who have been in the war for a while as if they are sick soulless creatures killing everything in their way. Later we find these same characters that are doing the questioning doing the same thing. For example Perry wonders to himself how someone can die in front of them and no one remember it the following day. This shows his morals are still intact.
“We are heroes.” Are there really any heroes in the novel? To be a hero is to be courageous and selfless by risking your own life for the sake of others by choice. In wars heroes can be created out of soldiers who are nobodies, because of the conditions and situations they are put under. In the novel Generals Die in Bed every soldier is called a hero for fighting for their country. But during war they are the opposite of courageous and selfless, with a single moto of “Each man is for himself.” The narrator leaves his friends behind, because he knows that if he were to stop he would be dead.
Emotions that the young soldiers can’t even understand. For example; they may ask themselves why are sent to die at war. The song, “Soldier Side”, gives us some specific examples of some of the questions that get into the young fighters. “Maybe you're a sinner into your alternate life”, “Maybe you're a joker maybe you deserve to die” the soldier is trying to think what he could have done to deserve all of this. To be throw into a futile battle.
“War is Kind” By: Stephen Crane Stephen Crane uses literary devices such as imagery and diction to reveal the reality of war therefore developing the ironic tone of the poem “War is Kind.” In the first stanza the speaker says “[d]o not weep, maiden, for war is kind/ Because your lover threw wild hands to the sky[a]nd the affrighted steed ran on alone…” (1-2); the details of the dying soldier enhances the tragedy of the scene therefore creating a horrifying image contradicting any idea of kindness. In second stanza Stephen Crane illustrates young men marching towards death. He refers to them as "[l]ittle souls who thirst for fight" (5) implying that some human being were made for war, "born to drill and die" (5). He calls the "glory" of battle "unexplained," revealing the irony of using a word such as glory in the same sentence as battlefield (6). In the third stanza the speaker addressed the child of the dead solider telling him/her not to cry for “[war] is kind,” but instead of trying to comfort him/her, Stephen Crane, illustrates the last moment of the soldiers where he “tumbled in yellow trenches, [raging] at his breast, [gulping] and [dying]”(8).