Undoubtedly, the plague causes the disintegration of families in the town. By structuring her novel as a retrospective narrative that is our protagonist, Anna Frith describes of what had happened in the book, enables the audience to adopt the sense of doom and horrors occurred during the time of the catastrophe. We are exposed to pain and grief that Anna feels when she lost her children whom she ‘loved from the moment she first reached down and touched the crowd’ of her children because of the plague, which results in her ‘(fighting) the sexton when he came to take Jamie’s body away’. Brooks clearly demonstrates and explores that the crisis such this plague can destroy
Explore how the writer presents the horrors of war in ‘Not So Quiet’ The book ‘Not So Quiet…: Stepdaughters of War’ was written by Evadne Price under the pseudonym of Helen Zenna Smith. Evadne was originally approached to write a parody of All Quiet on The Western Front, Remarque’s iconic novel, she instead decided to write a war-story from the point of view of a serious woman war-worker. In this essay I will be looking at how the writer presents the horrors of war. The book is written in first person narrative, it is almost a stream of consciousness and this makes the readers feel as if they are experiencing everything with the protagonist, Helen. It opens with a harsh and unflinching description of Helen’s life as an ambulance driver in France.
Ellie again questions herself and her actions when she blows up a lawnmower to save her friends. She battles with her decision and believes she is a murderer. Although the choices she makes may deliver pain and trauma to others, her human spirit shines through the chaos to help her succeed. Through the characters in ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’, Marsden shows the human spirit’s ability to grow and triumph. Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead.
In “No Humanity in War” Ojinmah states that: “Adichie raises the point of the universal inhumanity of all wars through drawing parallels of repulsion from other wars.” She mentioned: “the women who fled Hamburg with the charred bodies of their children stuffed in suitcases, the Rwandan women who pocketed tiny parts of their mauled babies.”(3) This proves Adichie’s point on the fact that all wars, no matter the time nor location of its occurrence, will always inflict the same inhumanities on the unfortunate souls caught in between. Ojinmah also points out that Adichie believes that war brings out the beast within every man, Ojinmah states: “Richard’s witnessing the mindless butchery of Nnaemeka and other Igbo people at Kano airport further amplifies the bestiality of man in situations of war.”(3) Ojinmah praises Adichie on her ability to not just tell the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War but also to illustrate it through the actions done by or to the characters in the novel. Ojinmah states: “Half of a Yellow Sun, is not just a story of the horrors of Nigeria’s civil war; Adichie refreshingly explores some thematic concerns through which the harrowing experiences of the war are highlighted, Majorly, she explores the themes of war; human brutality and bestiality; betrayal of love, trust, friendship and country; and child soldiering,
Other than that, it was not easy for George to shoot Lennie but he had to do it because if he didn’t he knew that Curley would and in a more painful way. Therefore George had to make the sacrifice and be the one who shoots Lennie himself so that Lennie wouldn’t have to suffer. Without Lennie, George also faces other problems on his own such as loneliness with no one to care for and no one to care for himself. Steinbeck’s characterization plays an important role in showing how Lennie himself brought him to his own death. On page 2 of the novel, Steinbeck gives a description of Lennie: “Behind
Owen used his poems to deliver the truth about war and change the views of society at that time. He used graphic and gruesome imagery about the horrors of war in order to illuminate his feelings. The horrors of war are most vividly and strikingly captured in the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est.’ Owen attacks the reader with a barrage of detailed, gruesome, descriptions of life at war. He uses this technique of imagery to force the reader to visualize the truth about war. Owen also seeks to expose the betrayal of the authorities throughout poems such as ‘Disabled’ and ‘The parable of the old man and the young.’ He expresses how they acted with a disregard for the lives of their countries young men.
Both are horrific practices prominent across the world and evident throughout history. Alice Walker, an African American author and activist, who grew up in the South, witnessed the effects of domestic violence and racism firsthand. Both domestic violence and racism are cyclical practices that play a prominent role in Walker’s debut novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Under the domination of white men in the sharecropping system, Grange Copeland begins the pattern of domestic abuse, eventually driving his wife to commit suicide. The cycle continues with Grange’s son, Brownfield, as he brutally abuses his wife and children—murdering his wife in the end.
O'Brien's extract conveys to the readers the contradictory feelings that war evokes in a person. War can be seen in different perspectives and can be felt with many different emotions. The author describes war as astonishing; an adjective rarely used in the general opinion. But O'Brien has seen and felt first hand, and writes that war makes you grow up and learn about yourself as a person. You learn to value life in those desperate moments where death comes close.
Main ideas in War Poetry The main idea in war poetry, written during World War One – 1914-18, is the harsh reality of war. Poets such as Wilfred Owen use the language techniques of simile, rhyme, repetition and personification to help convey the main idea. Owen uses techniques to paint a grim picture of what war was like and how it affected people. Through this, we see that war is often glorified, thus Owen was able to counter the glorification of war. After reading war poems we are able to get a true idea of how horrific war was and learn of its negative consequences.
What things would a soldier experience to totally change him? In Harrison’s novel Generals Die in Bed, the horror of war is a basic theme and has been described through many of the challenges the narrator faces in the novel. The horror of war has been described through the novel of the things such as having a constant fear of the unknown, inhumanity, and the most important thing is: death. | | First of all, unknown is a big problem in the war. Not knowing what’s around the soldiers and the narrator makes them feel terrible.