This means he is described as fragile and precious because of his injuries, with his punctured lung described as delicate as “parachute silk”. These images show Laura’s tenderness for her husband and how she wants to protect him. Similarly, Scannel also chooses imagery of war for what is really only a minor childhood incident. He refers to the spears of the nettles, calling them a “regiment” and, when he has cut them down and they have grown back again, he refers to them as “tall recruits”. This war and battle imagery used in the poem helps the reader to understand deeper, about the metaphorical meaning of this poem; that it is not just about comforting his son from the pain of the nettles, but also about the future pain of which he knows he will experience in his life.
As said by Owen Felltham, “Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolve.” Foremost, Jimmy Cross shares several links to Jesus Christ. In times of great stress a single person takes the brunt of the guilt or punishment for the good of the people, which is exemplified in both “The Things They Carried”, and in the bible. As Ted Lavender dies, Cross voluntarily takes responsibility for the death so that his men will not have to share in his burden. Jimmy Cross also assumes a great personal sacrifice by burning
As the audience reads more into Frank’s stories, we get an idea that he wasn’t supportive of his son joining the United States military in the beginning. This tone that Frank uses is a pathos form of writing which helps the audience connect with the author. As he drives home from taking his son to boot camp, the author loses his way home a couple times, to not knowing how to feel about John leaving. Schaeffer paints a picture of being discombobulated. Although Frank questions himself saying “Why the hell is John joining the military” (630) by the end, we have an author who is very proud and glad..
Art is good because This pathos and ethos made people, no matter the North or the South, to feel that they are in unity. Both sides were suffering the same war and urged to end it, while they shared a same religion. God plays an important role to connect the people together, which enhances Lincoln’s credibility in his speech besides his position as a president and occasion of this speech. Lincoln ended his speech by claiming that they would “strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations” (Wilhoit 138). This pathos describes how Lincoln would care for his people and how he would put the task of helping the people suffering from the war first, serving as a strong pathos since it is not only emotionally affecting his people, but also encouraging and giving them hope.
The Dehumanized Solider in Tim O’Brian’s “The Things They Carried” Debra Slone EN 101 9/25/12 Slone 1 In Tim O’Brian’s “The Things They Carried”, Lieutenant Cross tells about the items or the burdens his men carry. It isn’t until Lavender gets killed that he realizes that one of his emotional and physical items, his love for Martha is the cause and gives him an emotional burden of one of his men died because of his lack of focus on the situation. This was when not only does his officer get shot but so does Lt. Cross with a dose of reality and this is the point at which Lt. Cross becomes dehumanized. His platoon become dehumanized to deal with the war; most like him were teenagers, not emotionally ready for the horrible views of a war. For example we learn that Norman Bowker, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a thumb that had been presented to him as a gift by Mitchell Sanders.
Through the use of different types of communication such as writing, authors around the world try to communicate the message of how wars bring considerable fear, atrocities, and anxiety upon the society. One short story that is no exception, called “Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” by Tim O’ Brien, clearly portrays this message using the traits of the main character Private First Class Paul Berlin. Set in the Vietnam war, Paul Berlin, being forced to join the army, is currently living in his first hellish day of this terrifying new world. As the story progresses, Paul is determined to overcome his fear and anxiety in many unexpected ways but failed in the end. Tim O’Brien, having experienced the Vietnam War, addresses the violence of war and its hellish, inherent effects on the people’s mind through portraying Paul Berlin as fearful and mad.
War Brings Out the Best When someone thinks of war what generally comes to mind? Probably death, pain, violence, or that it’s a waste of time? All probably true but has anyone ever considered that war might make someone stronger or it creates a lifetime bond with his or her fellow soldiers. Walter Dean Myers’ novel, Fallen Angels, is about the struggles, gains, and losses of war through the eyes of an ordinary private in the army during the Vietnam War. Through out the novel the men are getting stronger and forming lifelong bonds with each other.
The lists also describe the emotional baggage each soldier carried, such as First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s (the leader of the squad) love for a girl back home. O’Brien’s use of lists and the repetition gives the reader a good impression of the lifestyle of the soldiers in Vietnam without outwardly and directly saying so, subsequently giving him a stronger argument by allowing the reader to attain the understanding of the situation on their own. The lists O’Brien uses in the story give clarity to the setting of the emotional and physical setting the story takes place in. When one thinks of a list, the natural conclusion is a dull and repetitive page of words, possibly bulleted or in some other such order, but never really all that interesting to read. O’Brien uses this to his advantage to give the reader a true sense of what the experience in Vietnam was for the common soldier, while at the same time not describing it outright, which is something he says later in the story cannot be done in simple words.
I figgered, ‘Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,’ I figgered, ‘maybe it’s all men an’ all women we love; may be that’s the Holy Sperit-the human sperit- the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of.”(Steinbeck 32-33) Jesus also had a commitment to save mankind from their sins; that is why he died on the cross. Jesus came as a leader for humanity and as a sacrificial figure. His death offered people another chance and a brand new beginning.
Anthem For Doomed Youth is a sonnet written by Wilfred Owen about the realities of war. Wilfred Owen was a soldier during WW1 and therefore understands fully the true experiences of war. He was against war and was appalled by the effects of war on people and their families. The purpose of the poem is to inform the public of the true realities of war and how young men where dying needlessly. This was because during war times the media would tell the public that the war going great and that the men where doing just fine, but this obviously just wasn’t true.