All Quiet on the Western Front very strongly achieves its goal of showing how a generation was destroyed by the war through its intense use of showing how the men have gone from everyday boys in school to almost less-than-human soldiers. It shows that these men were patriotic, proud people and became somewhat petty scavengers; and it shows that these men were unable to go back to their homes ‘intact.’ I think one of the most crucial parts of showing lost innocence is when Bäumer discusses his when he joined the army to fight in the war. He mentions his schoolmaster named Kantorek as someone who very strongly pushed for his students to enlist, going so far as to give them long lectures, to the point where all of Paul Bäumer’s classmates signed up. (11) Paul goes on to admit that he felt betrayed by Kantorek and the older generation. Paul later hears from Mittelstaedt that has been
“You should read it!” I was advised, dozens of times. Many people outlined the story for me, dwelling especially on the “cause” of Christopher McCandless’ death. The ending sounded disturbingly like another rendition of the Poison Plant Fable to me, but many very intelligent people, convinced by Krakauer’s skillful prose, would argue, “No, it’s really true!” I eventually realized that reading this book and researching Chris’s death were requirements of my job. Into The Wild is about an emotionally embattled young man named Chris McCandless who left his affluent upbringings behind, renamed himself Alex, and wandered the West searching for purpose and identity. His decaying body was found by a moose hunter in Alaska on September 6,
Jovi Ann Varquez Professor Flores English 1302 16 Sept. Racial Prejudice Along with the progress of this country came cultural diversity and discrimination. Different issues on opposing beliefs and traditions have come up, but most issues on superiority of race and color. Sherman Alexie, one of the greatest Native American writers, never let discrimination get the better of him. Instead he used literature as his way of inspiring others to fight against stereotypes as is evident in his article “Indian Education.” The article is a narration of brief encounters or memories of an Indian boy, from first to twelfth grade, depicting how he struggled to succeed despite stereotypes.
He encountered many challenges throughout his young life that recognized him as an even fiercer fighter pilot and a true hero. Billy Bishop faced an incredibly tough task to achieving his dream of becoming Canada’s greatest ace. Bishop had a tough life at school. He would be the subject to many jokes and preferred the company of girls. However his anger and fists won him acceptance on the school ground.
He, in fact, faced a constant inward struggle with his immense guilt of having sinned with Hester. Hawthorne uses Dimmesdale to represent the conflict love versus hate in that Dimmesdale does both. He has a great deal of love for Hester and Pearl, and even the people he preaches to. However, due to his overactive conscience and his desperate struggle for salvation in the afterlife "above all things else, he loathed his miserable self," for committing what the Puritan community believed to be a terrible sin (Hawthorne 141). Throughout the novel, Dimmesdale self- inflicts suffering in the form of extreme fasting and whipping on his shoulders and back.
Although they have indeed come a long way since their plane crash, they all still have much to learn about on diversity and the various personalities that people in a society may hold. The amount of innocence lost within all the boys as they switch from their civilized manner is a great feat to overcome with contrasting leaders. Ralph was like their old secure life back home and Jack was the tainted life they have to live now that they can’t go back. The entire novel The Lord of the Flies is a good metaphor for all parts of life, society, and human
Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family. But as the war changed his attitude and personality, poems and other things of his past life become something Paul could not remember having any link to, and he learns to disconnect himself from his feelings. When Paul arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates, (Tjaden, Muller, Kropp, and Kaczynsky), they have to engage in frequent battles and endure the dangerous and often the horrible and bad conditions of warfare. After all that, Paul and his friends have realize that the ideals of nationalism and patriotism that Kantorek was telling them is simply not true. They no longer believe that war is
What Seemed to be Recess In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of English school boys become stranded on an island that appears to be happy hunting grounds. The boys, acting on their first instinct, create a microcosm to model the society they have been so used to seeing. However, Golding emphasizes that savagery and evil exist in everyone and that the defects of the society on the island come from the defects in the boy’s character. Ralph, the protagonist of the novel, loses his innocence as a result of the primitive society on the island. Ralph is introduced as an optimistic boy.
An archetype is a pattern in writing in which connects certain types of writing one to another making the story’s ideas and characters mysteriously connected somehow internationally. There are different archetypes, such as the hero who always saves the day, or the most common one, the battle between good and evil. Both types have been written countless times by authors from all over In the folktale “ Anansi, The Clever One” by Donna Rosenberg in Folklore, Myths, and Legends: A World Perspective, an archetype I noticed was the main character in the story started off being the hero. His family was starving and lacking food so he went out in search of it, only to find an old man with thousands of captured and dead animals of all kinds. He brought
Literature is a large portion in education filled with many relatable themes and symbols. The Monster finds portmanteau with novels he is able to read. The Monster reads “Sorrows of Werter” which lead him to relate to how his protectors have treated him. “The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder. “(168) This novel gave the idea of suicide to the Monster which was inflicted upon being denied by everyone and not knowing his spot in humanity.