He was mourning how short to end up his life. “He felt all at once as if he had never done anything, never seen anything, never been anywhere.” (P.197) He regretted that he made a wrong decision to join a Royal. But now, he couldn’t do anything to change it. His life was already going
It’s as if your thoughts become one with Joe’s and his pain is yours. So, ultimately you care for Joe as you’ve cared for no other character in a book before. Joe is stuck only with his memories. There are no new experiences with his five senses ever to be known again. He longs to have his life back and he is angry it was taken away in a war he was forced to fight in that he didn’t believe in or understand, “Somebody said let’s go out and fight for liberty and so they went and got killed without ever once thinking about liberty.
Sadly Nathan’s inability to provide his family with more right then wrong began when he was a soldier during World War II. There, Nathan escaped the Battaan Death March, and almost faced the death it brought. Because he escaped the fate of death the rest of his battalion, he views himself as a coward who is despised by God. He vows never to be a coward again and he devotes his life to saving as many souls as he can, through his missionary work. It becomes increasingly clear as the novel progresses, that Nathan is not brave but cowardly, and not a man selflessly devoted to a cause but a man devoted to nothing and no one but himself.
During the war, they were exposed to a lot of stress, confusion, anxiety, pain, and hatred. Then they were sent back home with no readjustment to the lifestyle in the states, no deprogramming of what they learned from the military, and no welcome home parades. They were portrayed to the public as crazed psychopathic killers with no morals or control over their aggression. They find that there's nobody they can talk to or who can understand what they've been through, not even their family. As they re-emerge into civilization, they struggle to establish a personal identity or a place in society because they lack the proper education or job skills.
Her family is livings life where they cannot control what could happen to them because they don’t have money to fix these problems nor do they have the power to stop them. “The strife has lasted too young and had been too painful for me to call him back to continue it.” (pg. 100) This quote is fulfilled with grief and sorrow because Nathan and Rukmani’s last child, Kuti dies. At this point in the story, death is being caused because they don’t have enough money to support their children or feed them. Markandaya is showing fear by Rukmani not being able to support her children therefore they will die off if nothing is done.
Although Hemingway does not describe much about what Krebs experienced during the war, it is obvious that this man went through a transformation, and returned with what an outsider looking in would call extreme apathy. Harold Krebs, along with millions of other men and women, experienced war, an undertaking many can and will never know. Because of his service, he will never be able to truly return home, return to fulfilling society’s wants, return to the old Harold Krebs. Those who have never experienced what Krebs has, such as his own mother, will never understand what it was like, and will continue to force him to satisfy their standards of what is normal. Krebs’ sense of compassion and emotion was scarred in the war.
Joshua Wiggs Mr. Wellen English 3 18 November 2012 The Effects of War There are men dying today that do not even know what they are fighting for or why. Fighting for your country is an honorable thing but the government officials sitting behind their desks do not understand the sacrifices like the soldiers do. In the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, the main character Joe Bonham is faced with the grim reality of suffering the effects of war. He is in critical condition in the begging of the book and is left with no limbs, deaf, blind, and mute. Throughout the book he continually tries to fight the pain of the lonely feeling.
We explore how retelling the stories bring up the pain from war experience, and it lets the soldiers work through it after the war had ended. The protagonist is unable to tell his war experiences and therefore drives silently around; this lack of audience prevents him from arriving at a similar understanding. Norman Bower is finding himself at a loss, he comes home to nothing, his friends are all dead, his girlfriend is married and he has nobody to share his wartime stories with. The structural framework that the narrator is represented in is; that his life goes in circles, he is constantly thinking about the traumatizing experiences the
He never talked about politics or how he had lost all teeth. A person who has post traumatic stress disorder cannot usually express their feelings in words and talk about their issues since it is a very sensitive topic, for most people. Many people are filled with confusion, feeling furious and can’t describe what they are going
Jerry’s mother dying had left him feeling sad, angry lonely and made him feel cut off from happiness. His dad’s boringness and same-old-same day to day life bores Jerry and only increases his burden. Even when Emile Janza beat him up he never told anyone or complained about the situation he was in, he pushed through it. Renault has little power, he is bullied by Brother Leon and also by the vigils yet he sticks to his beliefs and doesn’t give in, the vigils result in trashing his locker which includes ruining his poster which says ‘Do I dare disturb the universe?’, anonymous phone calls are made to his home and they also expose his privacy, the vigils leave him with little. Jerry decides that if they have taken everything he will continue further to not give in as saying no to chocolates is all he has.