He often writes through famous battles fairly quickly and will drag out the rest. Most of the time, they weren’t in combat, but were trying to survive from their hunger and the unforgiving environment. Martin even sheds light on how the Continental Congress treated the Revolutionary Army and how they overlooked many of the soldiers’ issues and needs especially when it came to food and clothing. This was never really talked about before this book. The
Both of these ate away at the men; mind, body and soul. ‘Carry’ means to hold or support while moving, to transport, transmit, or transfer, but figuratively, ‘carry’ connotes bearing a grievance. After Ted Lavender was killed Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried Lavenders burden with him because he felt personally responsible for his death. He was to busy thinking about Martha the one he loved, even though he knew she didn’t love him in return. L.T.
Also, Grant used to be a very hostile man and he didn't care for anything but from visiting Jefferson he started to care about his life and the things in it, he dedicated his whole self to helping Jefferson become a man and he would get into arguments defending his choices with his aunt even if she was very important to him and they never fought. This is greatly shown when Grant is on a visit with Jefferson along with his aunt, Emma and the reverend Grant talks to Jefferson and tells him how he needs him and how he is someone who can do so much while he cant, then he began to cry. This shows how Grant wants to make a change in his life. Grant is a person who goes from being miserable and only cares for himself into someone who can love other things in life and fights for
7. The effect of the collapsing time in the final paragraph is that it had really emphasized his terror of remembering the war because even though the war was a huge impact part of his life O’Brien fears the memories of it. The rhetorical effect of this irony is that he spent so much thought over going or not going to war that the memories of the war was given no details whatsoever. It was almost not considered as important as the decision. 8.
Shifting Mindsets of War As is common knowledge in present day, war has transformative effects. Many soldiers come back from fighting with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) due to the horrendous sights and actions occurring on a daily basis. Ford Madox Ford illustrates this phenomena by constructing a significant character transformation caused by the war in No More Parades through Tietjens, as he becomes more open emotionally, and loses a bit of the cold reservation he is known and prided for as an English Tory. Prior to the war, flashbacks and reflection show that Christopher Tietjens had been a very reserved character. For example even the personal matter of caring for his sick child was done with a cold lack of emotion: “He had taken the responsibility.
It affects us(soldiers) and their family's lives, especially if the soldier died in battle. It affects leaders because they know that they have military resources at the ready. If theres is a civil war, it affects the citizen's life, win or lose, live or die. Another thing: everyone boasts how there isn't a war on American soild at the moment, but I disagree. We have drug wars, riots, and personal wars; and these go on every day of our lives, most going un-known except by the people it directly affects.
Also, how he changes throughout the book is very noticeable. Elie, had to make a few major life-threatening decisions at the concentration camp. He had one major one with his dad. He would do almost anything for his dad in the beginning. But, his dad was getting beat up and him or his dad could not move.
Throughout “On the Rainy River”, Tim’s influences, Elroy and his hometown, ultimately drive him to make the same decision, even though they represent very different things. Tim’s home-life is filled with pressures and responsibilities that at first he cannot handle. When the draft notice comes, all these forces initially push him away, but later, help him to make the decision to return and face the draft. When Tim describes his existence in Worthington, Minnesota, it becomes obvious that he is not extremely fond of his life thus far. As a declotter at the Armour meat-packing plant, Tim’s days are tough.
Lincoln writes, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” This sentence creates a coordination of words and importance as it does with the utilization of asyndenton. Synchises is seen again in Lincoln's writing when he states, “The world will little note or long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” This sentence and the use of synchises stresses that the American people must honor the lives that had been lost to preserve America's freedom. The Gettysburg address not only plays with the audience's emotion with the application of repetition devices, such as anaphora and epistrophe, tautology, and synchises, but also creates solemn tone yet passionate tone that encourages American's to remember soldiers lost, and to continue to fight for the freedom of
The shifting role of the father is very controversial subject, and there is therefor a lot articles where people express their opinions on the subject. Some writers do this through humour and sarcasm like in the essay “For Father’s Day, I’d like to make a complaint.” by Tim Lott. In the essay he is jokingly writing about how hard it is for a father to do normal household things fx “I don’t know the names of all my children’s friends, or my wife’s for that matter”. He is using irony to show how ridiculous it is that fathers complain about learning some simple tasks that mothers do everyday. In the essay “Manhood for amateurs” by Michael Chabon discuss how the standards of being a father is incredibly low.