Soldiers throughout the war are constantly exposed to death, so that it becomes a part of their normal day to day life. Soldiers soon become desensitized to how many people are actually dying each day. In the book Paul and many other soldiers on the frontline come close to death many times, through these experiences they became stronger individuals and gained a more appreciative outlook look on life. In the beginning of the book Paul sees one of his best childhood friends pass away. After witnessing the heart wrenching death Paul states “I become faint, all at once I cannot do any more.
He is in the war because he cannot pay for college and he needs to provide for his family. His Mother and Brother back home are relying on him. He is supposed to have a medical profile and not see battle because of his bad knee but it is lost in the transition so he is put in with alpha company under the leadership of Captain Stewart and Lieutenant Carroll. He ends up being a much stronger individual in the end of the novel. Richie is naïve and scared when first arriving in Vietnam and as the novel progresses he becomes more confident but remains scared.
Both poems have many common elements but are very different. The narrator of “The Soldier” speaks of what he wishes for others to think about him if he dies. In the first paragraph, he says that a corner of a foreign field, implied to be his resting place, is forever England, his homeland. Although the poem is talking about the possibility of death from a war, the poem portrays that death as bringing the essence of the narrator’s homeland into the Earth along with his body. Because that is the focus of the poem, the word “England” or “English” is repeated six times throughout its fourteen lines.
Trench Warfare World War One was a horrific event, the number of known dead sits at about eight million people. The main method of combat during the first world war, also known as the Great World War, was trench warfare. Trenches were dug mainly to protect troops, but ended up being one of the major reasons so many men died. These men had to live through miserable times, daily life was filled with horror, and death. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when they weren't under attack, many would die of disease.
They also suffered from shell shock which could take a lifetime to recover, majorly affecting their abilities. They suffered daily as their bravest and best were dying fighting, leaving behind only the most not useful and unwanted soldiers who chaff to go to France for a better life. The source is a form of complaint about their horrible conditions and danger that threatens their soldiers. This letter is written by a leader on the Western front to
written by Jessie Pope, and finally contrast this with the poems by Owen. DISABLED I think that in the poem 'Disabled', Wilfred Owen is trying to convey the real tragedy of war. Many people think only of those killed but reading the poem you remember that many people who were not killed in the war could still have suffered a lot more. In the poem Owen focuses on one young man, a single victim of war. It shows the effect the war has on the young man's life, when on returning from the war he has been maimed "legless, sewn short at elbow" Owen writes the poem with style.
Harrison gives us some form of backstory for each of the characters except for the narrator. This is a very deliberate technique used to try and emotionally attach us to these characters before they are abruptly removed from the story as if they never existed. “Better out of it.” Harrison gets the reader to believe that if a soldier is killed in battle or dies from a disease that they are better off than if they were still alive, but by still applying a backstory albeit small to the characters who die we are made to feel like the narrator as he sees all his comrades fall one by one around
Like I said many soldiers go fight and don’t know what their fighting for.. Some come don’t come back to see their families of come back crippled or suffering from a illness so you describe war in your own words what does it mean to you is war really good or bad you choose . Few become legends like Audie Murphy he was nothing and became something a true American dream. He loved this quote from gen. Paton “those who die for their country loose the war and those who kill the ones dieing for their country win the war
It had a drastic effect on the United States. Families were torn apart, peoples lives were changed because of injury, and 620,000 people died. Walt Whitman captured many of these things in the poems he wrote Leaves of Grass, on of the greatest books in American literature. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, shows the effects war had on people. An old man fights in the physically demanding war, a teenager's life being changed before it has even really started, both dead because of the war.
They were always short on water and other vital supplies. Men signed up for war for the fear of the white feather or shame being brought upon their families. The sociology behind the white feather was because of the pride the Army instilled in people who signed up. People who stayed back home, such as woman and older men would look down upon you if you did not go fight for your country. In Quite in the western Front when Paul returned home the society was in complete disillusion.