This is significant in that it shows the difference in Hassan and Amir. Hassan brave while Amir is weak and scared. In the memory, Hassan allows the fortuneteller to take his hand while Amir, in fear, does not, “the old man reach[ed] for my hand and I withdrew it.” These memories suggests about Amir feelings that he is in a state of panic and confusion where he does not know what to do. The memories might also suggest that the rape scene overwhelmed him with fear and represented a true moment where Amir became a coward. Most of all, however, the memories demonstrate Amir’s emotional dissociation during the rape.
Wiesel wrote about how horrible it seemed to lose one’s innocence. He did not realize that he had lost some of his own as well. Like Wiesel, many other victims still feel troubled by the painful memories that follow them. Roman, one of the countless victims of the Nazis, wrote a short yet perceptive poem about her lingering reflections; the powerful calamities caught the reader by surprise. Through Wiesel and Roman’s stories about their loss of innocence and haunting memories, we learned that the cruel and obscene methods used by the Nazis and SS Officers caused the vicious afterthoughts of those who survived the horrifying experiences that no human should endure.
Fear can hurt you, but it is the fear that can drive you to hurt other people. Does Ralph ever see it that way? “He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion... with filthy body, matted hair, and un-wiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart” (Golding 202). This quote really tells the reader what has been building up inside Ralph, and how it affects him.
The wind grew colder, the air smelled different; everything was now different for Irene and Francisco. The fear in their eyes never seemed to go away; they knew what was awaiting them. They knew that they were destined together for a life of constant fear, and not ever really knowing what was going to happen to them next. They know thought of their lives as meaningless strives for justice, for they knew that at any corner someone lay there ready to kill them. They tried to bring justice for the unidentified, unheard voices of the innocent, but somehow they felt they failed.
Compare how the poets present someone being damaged by war in ‘Bayonet Charge’ and one other poem from ‘Conflict’. Bayonet Charge is a poem which describes the thoughts and feelings of an unnamed soldier charging an enemy position in world war one and it is written by Ted Hughes. Out of the Blue written by Simon Armitage, is a poem which describes the thoughts and feelings of an individual who is standing on one of the burning twin towers and he is about to jump off and kill himself, due to a result of conflict. Bayonet Charge is written in the third person referring to the individual as “he”, the reader still understands how the soldier holding the Bayonet is feeling. Perhaps the fact that Ted Hughes has written this poem in the third person is to suggest that the soldier is too mentally instable and petrified to think for himself in a clear, structural manner which contributes to the fact that conflict is destroying him.
In “Dulce et Decorum est” one particular man is severely suffering from an awful gas attack. The gas is entering his lungs and drowning them, the rest of his friends have to merely watch as he is “Guttering and choking”. This would be a traumatic scene to experience as well as to witness; it would probably mentally scar the soldiers. At one point the Soldier dying directly asks the narrator for help, this is a very prominent part of the poem and emphasises the pure desperation. Also, similarly to “The Send Off” Owen continuously uses sarcastic and rude comments towards the government.
Caesura is used within the poem, to give a sense of inconsistency; the lack of punctuation gives this uneasy feeling, where we know that something just isn’t right. The descriptive language that is used emphasizes the sheer number of casualties, and makes the reader feel disconnected from the events being described. Dawe has offered the simile, “Telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree”, to help describe the misery that we as his audience, could never fully understand. War can have devastating
Topic: Adversity can bring out the very best of us, and the very worst as well. Adversity may both make and break a person, in this sombre and sorrowful story by Elie Wiesel the audience sees how people react to life threatening situations, whether they cave under the pressure, or come out stronger than ever. Night is the heart wrenching story of a young boy named Elie and his father, and their ultimate goal for survival whilst prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. The story shows us how dehumanization can lead to death, how kindness during times of imminent death is possible, and how self-preservation can bring death to those we love. During Night, dehumanization is one of the largest factor’s to the everyday lives of the Nazi’s prisoners.
The soliloquy by Hamlet favors more the expression of pathos. The reason for this is because he says everything from his heart because he is seriously considering suicide. He impacts the reader by making them feel bad for him and the situation in which he is in. In the soliloquy pathos is used in a way to make the reader feel a sense of sadness because Hamlet makes it seem as though there is no point to life. He says “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time” which means who would deal with lives problems.
Lee also recollected testimonies from the victims like this one “It was absolutely horrific conditions” said survivor Fred Johnson on the interview to lee. “it was like being in the middle of a war and all you could do was stand there and feel helpless” (208 Lee). The victims’ stories like the one I just talked before makes the article even more effective, because he uses it to show how people were feeling during the disaster, and what people felt after it. He is using stories of real people to explain the effects that the tragedy caused in