In the movie Casablanca the use of Hemingway’s code Hero is used to show the aspects of film noir. The film noir shares characteristics with Hemingway’s code Hero like the disillusionment of society and the darker aspects of the human condition. Items from the code that are used in the movie is the idea of a man’s man in Rick Blaine and that he is always in control of the situation. The trait a man’s man is used to show the ideals of film noir in that it similarly has to do with lust and drinking. Rick is the Hemingway Hero in this movie because he truly is a man’s man.
In this essay, Brown relates his personal hardships of being a minority of a colored race. The story itself was fairly easy to follow and he clearly addresses his point. It is manifestly meticulous. It makes the reader want to read more. He focuses on the anger created by racism within the American society and proves his point by telling his own life story about protecting his “manhood.” It exposes anger, revenge, and violence as the solution in facing the racial society to preserving his “manhood.” The gun symbolizes the past and the present.
Another type of imagery that appears in both poems in the description of the war itself and the imagery used reinforces the brutality of it, so is the aim of both poems. ‘the sob and clubbing of the gunfire’ and ‘the steaming Chow Mein’ as descriptions of both the landscape and the action of killing produces vivid images in the reader’s head to evoke a certain emotion that the poet is trying to convey. Dogs are used in various parts of Bruce Dawe’s homecoming to personify the mourning experienced by the families and friends of the soldiers, the homecoming jets are ‘whining like hounds’ and as they land and dogs ‘raise their muzzles in mute salute’ as a sign of respect and sorrow. The imagery used in both homecoming and beach burial is an important tool for reinforcing the powerful messages behind each poem and making sure the reader comes away having truly understood what the writer is trying to convey. “Beach Burial” by Kenneth Slessor and “Homecoming” by Bruce Dawe both explore the themes of the
He makes friends with George quite quickly and they talk about Lennie in a pitiful but admiring way (pitiful about his lack in intelligence but they admire him for his physical strength). Carlson abuses his power of having a gun by running for it every time he has an excuse to use it. When the men mention the health of Candy’s dog and suggests shooting it to put it out of its misery Carlson is the one who gets his gun and shoots the dog. When Lennie is suspected of killing Curley’s wife, Carlson runs for his gun but George has already got to Carlson’s gun and stolen it. I think Carlson is very abusive of his power in how he does this.
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front very much achieves its goal to “try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” Remarque goes to great lengths to show how the men in his novel came from ordinary backgrounds. These were men who were for the most part around 18-20 years old. The majority of Paul Bäumer’s group were his own classmates in school. Further, these men joined the German Army for patriotic and nationalist reasons. After spending some time in the trenches, they realized the true brutality of war, including the humiliation the soldiers must endure, such as using outdoor toilets in the open.
Young men thought themselves immortal, laughed off death, and never made it to their thirties (Staples 195). Grossman adds a daunting truth to how violent desensitization and brutalization endured by a soldier is laced with social media and passed to our children (Grossman 499). Soldiers’ whom are expected to accept death as their way of life are routinely abused physically and verbally. Through media and video games, violent crime, and war are blatantly exposed to youth and young adults. The youth are affected by becoming desensitized at an early age; laughing at death, mocking the injured, showing no remorse (Grossman 502).
The setting, being during World War II, also plays a roll in how the characters think and react. In the end, the war really impacted the boys at Devon and taught a very valuable lesson that you’ll always be fighting a war. We all have to deal with betrayal in life and there’s nothing we can do about it. Most of the betrayal happening is
Giunta says “I try to forget a lot of this, it benefits me in the long run, but coming back and doing these things: talking about it retches the gut.” Giunta talks about where he saves Sergeant Brendon from the enemies. As he says over the radio to the other men during chaos of the ambush, “there fucking taking him,” his voice is shaking and you see that his eyes start watering. The enemies rushed the men shot at Sergeant Brendon and then grab him as soon as he was down and started caring him away. Giunta is so freaked out that he poises and has to get him self together to finish the interview. Can you imagine seeing one of your best friends being carried away by people that are most likely going to touchier them and take them as a trophy in a place where you’re not familiar with and far, far away from home: didn’t think
Additionally, the successive references establish a serious tone. Both the content and structure of this quote contribute to King’s argument by appealing to the religious background of his audience. Another instance of anaphora occurs further along his letter. King writes, “But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim…when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro” (15). The use of the word “when” enhances his argument because the repetition gives the already memorable, emotional statement a lasting impression on the audience.
War is discussed in the poems weapons training, where a monologue is written from the perspective of an army official training troops and homecoming, where dead troops are being bought home from the war in Vietnam. Weapons training illustrates the harsh brutality of the army, the voice is aggressive and insulting, representing the nature of war. The voice uses insults, ‘are you a queer?’, ‘unsightly fat between your elephant ears’, ‘that drain you call a mind’ to dehumanize the troops, then he continues to preach that in war you either kill, or get killed . In homecoming Dawes is showing what happens to sodiers after they die at war, there is no glory or recognition, they are ‘zipped up’ and put into ‘mortuary coolness’ treated without warmth or care. This coolness forces the audience to feel sympathy towards those subject to warfare.