By using strategy, the sniper figures out a way to fool the enemy and kills him. Saving his life by taking out another, felt so bad. With guilt, and loss of lust for the war, the sniper became curious of the identity he had killed. The climax of the whole story happens at the very end when the sniper finds out he killed his own brother. Though, the story’s ending is ironic due to the sniper recognizing that the enemy killed was his brother.
Charley was climbing over dead bodies to get to the rebels. Charley was hiding behind his friends; unfortunately both of his friends get shot. Charley was standing in the middle of the hill jabbing people and screaming until he gets shot. Charley does survive from his wounds but dies later on during the book Narrative Structure: A major theme in Soldier's Heart is the horror of war, and how war changes a person. The author uses events that really happened in the Civil War to bring home the brutality of war--the building of a wall with dead bodies, young men shot in the stomach being left to die, horses being killed to feed starving men.
He is with the soldier in Arras and in the final battle at Amiens he and the soldier are the only two left of their company. Broadbent believes men should die with pride, as at the advance attack, he said “I know it-I’m dying-god and I’m and glad. I don’t want to go back like this.” (Page 204). Broadbent dies from loss of blood, calling for his mother after he loses his leg at the knee. “Broadbent dies like a little boy too – weeping, calling for his mother.” (Page
We were told a Marine was expected to commit suicide in cadence without a flinch, whether advancing into rifle fire or hurling himself upon bayonets. To bring him to a state of mindlessness where he was ready to do this, he was drilled physically and bullied mentally and spiritually until he was convinced not only that he was the lowest scum on the earth but also that his only hope of salvation, his ticket through the pearly gates, was to climax a lifetime of service by an act of self-sacrifice. Q: What did you think and feel about the Vietnamese war, the Vietnamese people, and Vietnam at the time when you came on active duty? A: At the time I volunteered, I felt the war in Vietnam was no different from any other. My grandfather fought in World War I, my dad and uncles in World War II, and several uncles fought in Korea.
130). By emphasizing the death of this man consistently throughout the chapter, it pin point the agony he felt once he killed basically a man who was not fit for war. Through the constant descriptions of the dead body, it shows the emotional truth behind the feeling of killing a human being and from that readers can understand the anguish of taking the life of another person. These soldiers also had to endure killing people “because they were embarrassed not to” and the men had to sacrifice themselves so “they died so as not to die of embarrassment” (21). In “The Things They Carried” chapter, O’Brien goes in to great detail to tell every little thing each soldier carried and a major thing they carried was the feeling of honor and to die a man.
They would usually hold their own guns to their heads and simply pull the trigger. In some other cases, men would stand in open range and allow themselves be shot by their enemy. As proven in the above paragraphs, life in the trenches in World War One was terrible. Soldiers' day-to-day lives were full of lice, rodents, disease and death. Many men were killed, even more injured, and tons left
The protagonist, who was keen to remove himself from the rat and lice infested trenches, enrolled himself in a bombardment of the German’s, with little knowledge of what he was getting himself in to. The protagonist was experiencing the concept of ‘Kill or be killed’, had a German soldier at the end of his bayonet and his howling had unnerved him. His rifle stood between him and death and the decision to leave unarmed and possibly die or kill the soldier and survive was to be made. The emotional turmoil was unbearable and the pulling of the trigger was excruciating. Even after this ordeal and the shock, the protagonist was still able to sympathise with the dead German’s soldier’s brother.
Henry also earns his Red Badge of Courage during the ambush, after he being hit with the butt of a gun. When he returns the troops think it is worse than it is; the troops believe it is a bullet graze mark. Henry also plays the flag bearer part in this book. Henry is in battle and sees that the flag bearer has been shot, so Henry makes his way to the dead flag bearer and takes the flag. Henry leads the army, this time, not as a shooter but as the flag bearer.
They part ways and they lead their troops in battle. When the battle gets to be too much, Cassius has his friend Pindarus kill him with the same sword that Cassius used to stab Caesar with. He then dies once he gets stabbed. When Brutus hears of Cassius’ death, he has his friend Strato hold his sword out and he runs into it and kills himself, also. I don’t think that Brutus is a tragic hero at all, because he killed himself, and I don’t think that he did it for a good cause.
George has experienced a lot of tragedy in his life but has also encountered hope. Firstly, a tragedy that George experiences is that he to kill his best friend, Lennie, by shooting him in the head. As George aimed the gun at Lennie, “[his] hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger” (Steinbeck 106). This affected George because he has to live knowing that he killed his best friend.