After Blockalteste told Elie that he is in a concentration camp, he shouldn’t care about anyone else except himself even his old father. Elie began to thinks about what Blockaltest had told him, “Too late to save your old father----You could have two ration of bread, two rations of soup----“(111). When the SS officer was beating his father in front of Elie. Normally human been would protect his father getting hurt, but he chose to do nothing and just watched his old father getting whipped, because he was afraid to get hurt. Next morning when Elie found out his father got took away, he didn't weep anymore.
That made Daniel furious so he hurled the bowl at the Romans face and dashed away but while he was running he got nicked with a spear and hid in house for a while. He knew he had to get to Joel’s otherwise he would not live. When he got to Joel’s he passed out and they hid him for weeks and then when he got better he told Joel about being a spy. Secretly he pretended not to be able to walk but practiced it when Joel and Thacia were not around and one night when he thought he was good enough he left and made it back to the base of the mountain. From there Samson carried him up the hill
Not the form of growing up that most young men these days go through, but the growing up a man does when he watches friends die. The growing up that is necessary to stay alive during war. Howard Fast’s quote at the beginning of chapter seven states, “And you’ve lost your youth and come to manhood, all in a few hours....Oh, that’s painful. That is indeed” (111). These words best describes the point I’m making about the theme of this book.
It’s unclear where Henry is stationed but Lyman thinks he is stationed somewhere in Vietnam. Lyman never gets drafted so he stays home and works on the car while Henry is gone. Lyman works hard and still embracing his bond with his brother whips the red convertible into perfect condition. Three years pass on by before Henry makes his permanent return home. Erdrich shows symbolism through the convertible and relationship Lyman and Henry have.
They run by a young boy crying and the boy releases his father's hand and wants to help him but the father picked his boy and ran away. Later that night they are camping away from the road they are following and the boy is upset at his father for not helping the boy but his father explains on how it would end up hurting them in the long run with food and such. They go to sleep. Pg. 90 - 107 They are walking down the road early in the morning
During the course of the novel of ‘Deadly Unna?’ the readers are exposed to the negativity between the father and his son. This affects Blacky in way that his self-esteem is almost non-existent, and the negativity is prominent throughout the novel. Examples of the neglect shown by his father are that of the time when Bob refers to Blacky as a ‘gutless wonder’, and the journey we take through the story of Blacky’s deteriorating respect for him. The ‘gutless wonder’ incident was a influential part of the novel, as Blacky realises that his Dad isn’t one to take advice of someone he feels is inferior than him, thus saying, ‘My own son, a gutless wonder. A gutless fucking wonder!’ When Blacky explains to his father about the storm, Bob insults him rather than swallow his pride and takes his son’s advice on board.
He was a unpopular weakling even before the war started. Billy is a person that would rather sink than swim. He is a joke of a soldier. He trains to be a chaplain’s assistant, a duty that earns him disgust from his peers. With scant preparation for armed conflict, no weapons, and even an improper uniform, he is thrust abruptly into duty at the Battle of the Bulge.
Tim O’Brien uses irony in his short story “Where have you gone, charming Billy?” The story set in Viet Nam during the war, revolves around a young man on his first day in country. He is so frightened because the situations all are so new. He cannot forget what he saw earlier when “Billy Boy was…scared to death in action” (736). The irony surprises us because Billy Boy was supposed to be a tough soldier who would survive anything. He does not because his fear causes a heart attack.
Life carried the body of his friend in a sack to the boys mother, and he describes it as being a very depressing time in his life. He especially would not bear to see Sam turn up dead, tied up in a sack. Life's overall point of view about young men going to war, is that young men should stay away from
They do not ever want to show fear. Even after the war, the men still carry the grief of the war. Tim O’Brien carries the image of the young man that he killed, and it haunts him every day. Jimmy Cross tells Tim that he still has no forgiven himself about Ted Lavenders death. “At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death.