Although The Things They Carried had some references to actual family, the text showed that the most important family to the soldiers whilst they were at war were their ‘brothers’ out in the field. In contrast, Night was highly reliant on the family aspect of survival and how if families did not help each other, ultimately they both would die. Family was significant in both texts because it influenced the decisions of the characters. Father and son relationships between characters in Night and The Things They Carried played an important role, because it had an impact on how the characters thought and behaved. In Night the relationship that Elie and His father Chlomo shared helped the two of them to survive for so long in the death camps.
Attitudes towards war are controversial ideas that are illustrated by three Poets. Rupert Brooke, in his poem Soldiers, illustrates the idea of war as positive and a honorable endeavor. Wilfred Owen in his poem Dulce Et Decorum Est. and Siegfried Sassoon In his poem Survivors however, convey an opposing idea that war is negative, painting war as horrific. The idea of peoples attitudes towards war as being either positive or negative, as presented through these written texts, are timeless and continue to be relevant to society today.
The nature of war poem is to show how horrible and disgusting war is. A famous poet who wrote war poetry is Siegfried Sassoon. He was an English poet, author and soldier. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War. Sassoon’s poetry described the horrors of the war and how disgusting it is.
It is for this reason that the Great War was seen as an opportunity by men, where they could prove their virility by displaying warrior traits of aggression, endurance and camaraderie, defying all aspects that were associated with that of female qualities. With these ideas in mind, the repercussions of war left men in such a state of serious psychological and physical trauma that they suffered from Shell-Shock or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). To be a man meant the repression of emotions and the willingness to sacrifice oneself physically and emotionally for the good of their country. Lastly, those that did not enlist into war were bullied into it by a propagandistic scheme known as the White Feather Campaign. Definitions of masculinity have changed over the centuries with particular focus on the idea of male virility.
Although his childhood was ultimately hard it still led him to becoming part of the war effort. After WW1 Hitler focused all of his efforts on giving his country a way out of their struggle. Hitler wanted to reboot his country after WW1. He was very successful at this because he was a very good speaker which made him likable. He had a way of gaining peoples trust and respect that brought in many followers for his organization the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDA).
This pathos describes how Lincoln would care for his people and how he would put the task of helping the people suffering from the war first, serving as a strong pathos since it is not only emotionally affecting his people, but also encouraging and giving them hope. The war destroyed millions of families. Lincoln in the first place gave his attention on healing the people and their families, instead of describing how beautiful the future would be and giving unrealistic assumptions This pathos and ethos made people, no matter the North or the South, to feel that they are in unity. Both sides were suffering the same war and urged to end it, while they shared a same religion. God plays an important role to connect the people together, which enhances Lincoln’s credibility in his speech besides his position as a president and occasion of this speech.
This extract from the short story 'The Truth about War' deals with the ambiguity and contradictions of war; particularly focussing on the comparison between the beauty and brutality of it. O'Brien tries to convey to us through the use of compare and contrast that there is hope of peace in war. War will make you grow up due to what you have experienced. War will make you value life. O'Brien's extract conveys to the readers the contradictory feelings that war evokes in a person.
“Brooke presents us with a highly idealised view of war in his sonnets”. Referring closely to the three sonnets you have read, would you agree with this statement? Yes, I believe that Brooke’s sonnets do present a highly idealized view of war. Such an idea is because when Brooke’s wrote these sonnets they were just starting the war, meaning that war was seen as an ‘adventure’ and recruitment was necessary. His sonnets were made to be passionate and patriotic and to show hope and rid the fear of future soldiers.
Not So Sweet Nor Becoming Wilfred Owen was a man of two professions: writing and fighting. As a soldier in World War 1, Owen was horrified by his experiences and the tragedies he witnessed. These memories motivated him to write poems that relayed the truths of war. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is perhaps the most famous of these pieces. When looking for a poem to analyze, this one jumped out at me; immediately upon reading its title, I thought of another piece of art that references the same phrase.
Theme-The brotherhood that war forges between men who lived in different parts of a country, brothers from the point they met to the point that their lives end. The universal message is that even in tough times if we trust others, depend on others, and are trustworthy and dependable ourselves that we will be able to survive. 2. Reflect on your reading of the work’s narrative elements: what are the 5 W’s and the 1 H? o What happens?