Carl Rogers, The author of the essay “Communication: Its Blocking and its Facilitation”, presents the idea that communication between people today is struggling. Rogers states that the “major factors in blocking or impending communication” is due to “our very natural tendency to judge” other people’s thoughts, ideas, and opinions without ever being in their shoes (419). Rogers goes in depth on the overlaying problems of communication these days but also gives us various ways to help us communicate on a new level of understanding. When communicating with individuals, we must listen and not immediately judge the person. Rogers puts blame on this as one of the biggest reasons for communication breakdown.
“The Things They Carried” is a text that focuses on writing as a form of coping with trauma and discusses how exaggeration is sometimes needed in a story to convey the message that the story-teller is trying to get at. An example of this is when the author talks about how for Rat Kiley “facts were formed by sensation” (89). Kiley is described as telling his stories as though they are intended to be tragedies, even the funny parts. This is because there is an underlying sadness to every war story, even though humor can be found in them. Part of this may be attributed to the ‘education’ each soldier received when they first went off to the war.
Faulkner occupies the use not just only multiple narrators, but also the perplexity of stream-of- consciousness to intensify the failure to differentiate between reality and understanding. This use of a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events lets the commentary to be revealed as if were actually reading what they’re thinking. Thoughts arise with no jurisdiction and as such allow the mark of directness. Also, since As I Lay Dying is developed from the characters emotions rather than conversation between characters, the first feeling is to naturally consider since peoples thoughts are mostly unrefined. The use of stream-of-consciousness also serves to conceal the way to finding the ideal
In the attempt to capture truth in writing, writers and readers alike are cognisant of the artifice that occurs in the process of writing. This oxymoron; that truth and authenticity can result from artifice is the basis of the conflict that occurs between concepts of reality, truth and literary realism. The nature of fiction itself presents tension between truth and artifice: writers abide by the facets of literary realism, which has a “fidelity to the truth” (M.H. Abrams), and must create artifices to deliver meaning and create truth, utilising techniques of fiction such as metaphor, figures, imagery and dialogue which aren’t necessarily true. In order to create a sense of authenticity, Nam Le abides by verisimilitude in his short stories “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” and “Tehran Calling” in his collection The Boat.
The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is a novel which although very profound and harrowing, depicts the story of a young German soldier, Paul Baumer, during World War I. The novel was written to reflect the horrific nature of war, and to illustrate some of the effects which it has on individuals who are embroiled in it. The novel illustrates the process of war through the eyes of a young man, who initially believes, along with his friends, that war is a glorious conflict however this viewpoint begins to change during the course of the novel. This paper has been written to provide a comprehensive critique of the book and to demonstrate an understanding of whether the writer succeeded in their aims, and it will also present a thesis about the book. The thesis which will be investigated and illustrated is how Paul Baumer is representative of the Lost Generation, and that his character development throughout the book reflects this change in attitudes towards war of the young men who went to fight in World War I.
Some victims’ wish to have an apology from the person who committed the crime, some wish to have a relationship with that person and some just wish to be left to go about their lives through acceptance of what has happened. One of the most common ways victims’ achieve what they aspire is through what’s called Restorative Justice. Restorative justice is defined as a broad term which encompasses
It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” This quote represents all that Remarque set out to portray with the publication of this novel. He is trying to let the reader feel the betrayal he and his generation felt when they were swept up into a fight which was not there’s. His statement that “death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it…” is a poetic way of expressing the way in which a person when faced with his own demise suddenly understands how real the consequences of deadly combat are. This is a time which brings reevaluation of moral principles as well as harsh reflection upon what life is worth to each and every one of us. The names, dates, and highlights of bureaucratic outcomes as the result of international conflict are what a textbook or traditional history book might provide.
What makes a successful short story? The two stories which I am writing about are James Joyce's 'An Encounter', written in 1905 and Ernest Hemingway's 'Indian Camp' written in 1924. A short story is defined as “an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot”. [1] This definition mainly applies in Joyce's story, where he uses imagery and mood to make the story flow. Hemingway's story however is written with a sense of mystery.
Magill’S Survey Of American Literature, Revised Edition (2006): 1-2. Literary Reference Center. Web. 18 Feb. 2013. 2) Summary: Charles May states in his article that Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado is a clear example of unity in short stories, and the reason for this is due to the use of irony; he mainly argues that even though the plot seems relatively simple, the irony filled story turns out to be decidedly complex.
Both “The Soldier” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” are poems written by soldiers in World War I about the war. “The Soldier” comes from the beginning of World War I in 1914, while “Dulce et Decorum Est” comes from the end of the war in 1917. “The Soldier” portrays death in the war as bittersweet, explaining that even if the narrator dies his burial place will always have the essence of England, his home country. In contrast, “Dulce et Decorum Est” portrays the war realistically, portraying the fear and raggedness of the soldiers when trying to survive in the trenches. Both poems have many common elements but are very different.