Giunta says “I try to forget a lot of this, it benefits me in the long run, but coming back and doing these things: talking about it retches the gut.” Giunta talks about where he saves Sergeant Brendon from the enemies. As he says over the radio to the other men during chaos of the ambush, “there fucking taking him,” his voice is shaking and you see that his eyes start watering. The enemies rushed the men shot at Sergeant Brendon and then grab him as soon as he was down and started caring him away. Giunta is so freaked out that he poises and has to get him self together to finish the interview. Can you imagine seeing one of your best friends being carried away by people that are most likely going to touchier them and take them as a trophy in a place where you’re not familiar with and far, far away from home: didn’t think
He is looking at each soldier, everyone with a different injury and becomes resentful of the men. He begins to think that a wound is something of "a red badge of courage," to show to others that only the courageous survive and can walk with pride and valor. Fleming meets a soldier who's name becomes the " tattered soldier," who has been shot twice and speaks with great flamboyance of his regiment not fleeing during the heat of the battle. The soldier begins to ask Henry where he is injured, a mixture of this and his "arrogance" leads Henry to wander to a different part of the column where he sees his friend Jim Conklin deathly wounded. Henry promises Jim that he will take care of him and not let anything happen to him, at this moment Jim gets up and starts running frantically to his
Getting over th ehump of a much more severe boot camp completed the tranistion from sloppy civilian to kempt soldier. Moving up the ranks on account of his common sense intelligence and the attrition of the MI he becomes squad leader where he proves himself during a combat drop by not only just leading his squad successfully but going back for a wounded soldier bringing to live the "no MI left behind" motto. Skipping the rank of platoon sergent to assistant section leader brought him some disobedience from the senior platoon sergent that should have gotten the higher billet. Taking him aside for a mutual ass whooping, the destruction of an equal match serves as a good example for all enlisted leaders. Rico accepts his role in the infintry and serves as a shining examples of a soldier so much that he is approached to commission.
He sees the officers meeting to discuss the plans for the day. Lee arrives to meet with Longstreet, and Fremantle conscious that the soldiers are laughing at him as he hangs in a tree comes down. He speaks briefly with Ross, who is dressed in his bright blue, amusing war costume, complete with a metal helmet. Fremantle is quite unaware of the grave nature of the battle, and he always believes that the gentlemanly South will naturally win the war. He is delighted and a bit nervous at the first sound of the cannon.
The fact that Paul regresses and starts counting his steps, which shows before entering the war he was carefree and wasn’t used to fear, explains how the violent war poses such inherent effects on Paul’s mind by turning him from such a carefree, to a fearful person. Paul also turned into a mad person temporarily when one of the other soldiers named Toby mentioned Billy Boy’s death. As a result of trying to fight fear and stress, Paul reacts in such a psychological way by laughing involuntarily, which shows he became mad (page 136). Using these
He writes that “voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn” which indicates that laughter of children saddens him as he isn’t capable of laughing, because of the war. The idea of Owen constantly thinking about the effects of the war is portrayed where it is written “sleep mothered them from him.” This shows that the laughing and innocence of children has been taken away from many younger soldiers including him, which keeps playing on his mind. The second stanza begins with Owen reminiscing about the pre-war period where the “town used to swing so gay,” meaning that everything was joyful and everyone was content before the war broke out. It is also indicated where Owen writes, “In the old times.” This idea of the war changing everything is shown where it is mentioned that men “threw away their knees” suggesting that
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.
Blood started flying everywhere, and the once green grass now became a pool of dark red blood at our feet. I hear someone shout, “May God be with us all”. For many people that was all they had by their side hoping they wouldn’t be the one to die out of many on this field today at this moment in time. Looking around again I see our face and uniforms covered with blood stains as well. Panicking, I hid in the trees that were to the left of me just trying to stay alive as I look around and people were dropping like flies.
This adds the sense of dread and foreboding of the battle and enhances the audience’s perspective of the cavalry and their bravery during the melee. Though the poem talks of the honour and glory of the brigade it contradicts itself with the underlying description their defeat and many of their deaths. Tennyson also places a great amount of emphasis on the faults made by the brigade’s commander’s; with the entire of the second stanza devoted to recounting the mistakes of the command to send these men into the crusade and without the opportunity to question their orders- “Their’s not to make reply/ their’s not to reason why/ their’s but to
Sassoon uses sympathetic language to portray the mood of a young soldier by his actions. It starts the revelation of the ugly struggle when his resentment rises. For instance, youngsters enlisted in army during World War One had no aspiration for their future, thought that it was a great option to depart for war and comeback with a splendid future. Obviously, they do not expect the excessively harsh