132 ➢ The flamethrower is a symbol of war. ➢ The flamethrower creates destruction of everyone, just as war does. ➢ Causes grief and panic to the soldiers. ➢ Soldiers who are hit by the flame thrower have a slow torturous death as they are being burned to death. ➢ Humanitarian perspective • Effective way for the Germans to win the battle.
Cursing under my breath and shaking my head I get ready to meet my fate. I bowed my head and prayed to God me and my brother would be alive and that we wouldn’t have to kill each other. But I fear, there is no God here just death. We draw our weapons and begin firing at once, the bullets hitting the body sounded like thunder and shattered their bones in a blink of an eye. Blood started flying everywhere, and the once green grass now became a pool of dark red blood at our feet.
As the Jewish children rode the trains to their death they saw a plethora of grapes and were blinded by the sun. The speaker again mentions the children in the poem most likely because he was a child as the war occurred. The speaker can imagine what the starving children were seeing as they passed vineyards. The speaker says “The tireless Lorelei / can never comb from their hair / the crimson beards of the murdered rabbis” (lines 9-11). The Lorelei in the poem are the Nazis that murdered millions of rabbis and they will never be able to wash the blood off their hands.
I could hear guns from both sides rapidly being fired off. The sounds of machine guns and bombs blowing up amplified in the shell-hole. The ground beneath me trembled with each explosion, triggering gravel to shower over me. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed someone jumping into the shell-hole; I thought it was someone from my group so I didn’t think anything of it. They lunged towards me and landed on top of me, knocking my gun out of my hand.
She looked down at the axe, which seemed for last for hours. She thinks of the bible sales man that ran away with her leg, and has nothing but hatred for him. With the last little strength Hulga has, she kicks, with her one leg, and pushes her way the last little bit she needs to so that she may begin her fall to her own demise. She hears a familiar voice yell her name, as she exits the window. She screams a loud screech, just seconds before her death.
Because he was so furious that Janie had done so, he responded by hitting her. “So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store.” (Hurston 80) Jody wanted to prove that he was the one who had power. However, soon after Jody dies due to a disease. “The she starched and ironed her face, forming into just what people wanted to see, and opened up the window and cried, “Come heah people! Jody is dead.
One of the people who was calling her name claims to be her aunt Gitl. Gitl claims Chaya is there because her whole family was killed back in her hometown Dublin. After all chaya's confusion they all head off to a wedding which is Gitl's brother shmule's. During the wedding jeeps come pulling up Chaya try to warn everybody it was the Nazis but no one believed her. Soon after that the Nazis tell everybody they have to leave.
Captured soldiers are summarily executed, the commanders of the invaders having determined that the term "prisoner of war" will no longer be used. Thousands are executed, their bodies buried in the Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch. Young men thought to be soldiers are burned or buried alive, nailed to trees, even hung by the tongue until they die. Pregnant women and babies are treated the worst, mutilated to death in unimaginable ways. Today the survivors of the Nanking Massacre, now in their seventies and eighties, still recount the terrible things that happened over six weeks in 1937.
I sank to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the woods”(101). The being was left in the woods for weeks attempting to cure the wound which he had received. He was upset. He became confused. “I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone”(101).
In “No Humanity in War” Ojinmah states that: “Adichie raises the point of the universal inhumanity of all wars through drawing parallels of repulsion from other wars.” She mentioned: “the women who fled Hamburg with the charred bodies of their children stuffed in suitcases, the Rwandan women who pocketed tiny parts of their mauled babies.”(3) This proves Adichie’s point on the fact that all wars, no matter the time nor location of its occurrence, will always inflict the same inhumanities on the unfortunate souls caught in between. Ojinmah also points out that Adichie believes that war brings out the beast within every man, Ojinmah states: “Richard’s witnessing the mindless butchery of Nnaemeka and other Igbo people at Kano airport further amplifies the bestiality of man in situations of war.”(3) Ojinmah praises Adichie on her ability to not just tell the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War but also to illustrate it through the actions done by or to the characters in the novel. Ojinmah states: “Half of a Yellow Sun, is not just a story of the horrors of Nigeria’s civil war; Adichie refreshingly explores some thematic concerns through which the harrowing experiences of the war are highlighted, Majorly, she explores the themes of war; human brutality and bestiality; betrayal of love, trust, friendship and country; and child soldiering,