We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship. However the Harmonium is used to describe his father so therefore his family life whereas in Nettles it is reversed. The Nettles, that had caused pain for the boy, is actually describing soldiers and war therefore the underlying message is not about family but about war and the underlying message
Friendly to everyone but wasn’t very close to any of the other men. It was clear that being a platoon leader was too much for him. He tried to act confident and sure, but as later seen the real soldier falls. After Lavender’s death, Jimmy Cross couldn’t live with the fact that he had brought his soldiers to danger. He felt quilt and shame.
The protagonist, Krebs is starting story with his typical life. After war is over, he does not want to come back to his home. When Krebs comes back, he wants to share the war experience to people in town but no one want to listen to him because the war is already end a year ago and the stories that been told by other soldiers are more exciting, more thrilling. To grab their attention, Krebs has to lie to them to make his story more interesting. In the story, narrator mentions that, “Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration...” (118).
At first it didn’t give the impression that it was an imperative scene to the understanding of the story because there was no background to her, she didn’t seem to have any significant value to the story until you read further. Anther scene I feel deserves the title of a climax is the death of Henry Lamartine Jr. The whole chapter conveys so much emotion, mostly of the relationship between Henry Jr. and his half brother Lyman Lamartine. After Henry’s experience in the war he was never the same person and was never happy. It wasn’t that he wanted to be like that it was that he was unable to find that happiness after being in so much hate.
While missions certainly beget terror, the missions are extremely short and sporadic. Instead of fighting honorably and helping Vietnamese civilians in need, Perry and his fellow soldiers find themselves waiting for the next sneak attack, gripped with anxiety. Plagued with this anxiousness about the next attack, the soldiers often wait weeks in complete paranoia. Originally confident and expectant that glorious combats would fill them up with a sense of self worth, Perry and the young soldiers actually feel let down, disgruntled and paranoid. In addition, further negating their romantic views of war, Richie, Peewee, and the others find the army and active combat to be disorganized, completely inefficient and completely feeble; disillusioned by the concept of war, the young soldiers begin realize that perhaps war was not as glorious as they hoped it to be.
Nobody likes the war and nobody wants to fight but for some reason the world had a problem and it needed to be fixed. The war has its positives but there are a lot more negatives such as, the draft, people leaving their family, death, etc... The point that rash tries to prove about the war in this essay, is when the farmer talks about losing his own boy in the war. “He fought for Mr. Lincoln do he?” the boy asked “not no more” the farmer replies. Whether the farmer is an antagonist or protagonist in this story, Rash still portrays him to be sad and pissed that his son died in the
In order to demonstrate the trauma and anguish of all immigrants, Tóibín effectively reveals the fact that neither Jack- Eilis’ older brother who moved to Birmingham for better employment prospects; nor Eilis can directly communicate their distress about their journeys, illustrating the lonely nature of immigration experiences. (“As he spoke, he looked innocent and serious, she thought, but nervous as well, as though he were on display and worried what she would think of him and the life he had now”). Passages of the novel before Eilis’ physical journey also exposes her immensely passive personality, as she is reluctant and afraid to speak her mind about moving to Brooklyn, despite her fear of change and her unprepared mental state. Following her lonely and anxious trip on the ship from Ireland to America, Eilis then unsurprisingly endures severe symptoms of homesickness as she arrives in America- “That night was the worst she had ever spent ”. As a way of coping with a new life in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers various resolutions such
He does not see his alienation because he is so used to it. Gregors guilt kills him knowing he is now no of use. As the novel progresses, Gregor tries to rebuild himself that he had lost by living for others and ignoring his desires. He cannot, however, escape what he sees as his family duty, and continues to serve his family by doing his best not to trouble them Gregor manages to escape his sense of duty only in the last chapter, when he realizes that his family has been neglecting him. Gregor's search for his identity seems hopeless, but, because he never had an identity to start with.
“..Father’s silence was infinitely more menacing than a flood of threatening speech. That night the old man did not eat,” (pg.260) Pain was obviously felt by the father even though he did not show it because of his pride. The father also experienced pain when his son sent him a letter explaining that his grandchildren want to see him. “That night he hardly slept, from remorse—and a vague fear that he might die without making it up to them.” (pg.262) Besides fear, he also has pain because a thunderstorm is coming in the small village and he starts picturing his grandchildren and he says to himself he
He couldn’t have left me.” Everything after that was a blur in which I am unable to remember, but the funeral I remember quite well. I had to sit through endless people giving me their condolences, but my immature eleven year old brain got repeatedly agitated. I understood they were being sympathetic and that most people don’t understand or know what to say to make it better, but there words didn’t have much effect on me. I didn’t want to be at the funeral home. Reid 2 I didn’t want to see or talk to anybody.