...explores the hardships of the Vietnam War during combat, and his short stories “Speaking of Courage” and “Field Trip” show the after effects of the Vietnam War and how it changed people forever. Tim O’Brien is considered one of the only authors who portrays the Vietnam War exactly how it was. Through the use of tone and characterization, Tim O’Brien demonstrates a soldier’s constant fear of impending death, and the emotional toll of war. Tim O’Brien uses tone throughout is stories to show what the Vietnam War was like, and how it affected people. The tone in O’Brien’s short story, “Field Trip”, emphasizes the meaning of the trip and why the field is important. The whole purpose of the narrator’s trip to Vietnam is to get closure about Kiowa’s death. The narrator said, “I’d gone under with Kiowa, and now after two decades I’d finally worked my way out” (Field Trip 736). By visiting the site where Kiowa died, some of the burden of his death is taken off the narrator’s conscience. The tone of the passage is shown when the narrator’s daughter, Kathleen, does not understand what is going through her father’s mind as he is gazing out into the field (Bookstove 1). The last time the narrator saw this field he witnessed the death of his friend, and ever since then the field has been on his mind. The tone is how the field is completely different then the last time he saw it. It shows how things change and how you have...
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...Vigna The Red Badge of Courage This book is a story of life. It shows the trials and everyday that henry went through. Scholars say that the war is a comparison to daily life. Life is like a war. In the battles of the war, people will change. They can become stronger. They can become weaker. They can choose to go on or give up. In this book, the main character Henry Fleming, changes throughout the battles he goes through. He goes through a character change that shows how people must get through their own fears, daily life, and struggles that hold us back from becoming the best. How Henry changes in this story, he shows that all people in the world have a sense of fear that we should overcome. In the beginning of the book, the first section, he is a young boy. He is inexperienced. He was selfish. He entered the war for the glory and not to serve his country. He wants to become a hero and be known for it. Us humans have a want for self satisfaction. We are selfish. That was his main motive for the first part of the novel. He soon realizes that to become a hero, it costs a price, by war wounds, or death. He at this point becomes self serving where he just wants to survive. Not for the country. For himself. Then he starts asking himself whether he should leave the battle. He then asks Jim, the tall soldier, if he would run. Jim said that he had thought about it. Henry thought, if it was ok for his friend jim to run, it should be fine for himself to do that. He learns to not give...
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...‘Is Ellie wrong to have killed the soldiers? In the novel, ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’, by John Marsden, throughout the ending, including chapters 7/8, 11 and the last chapter killings of the soldiers occur. It focuses on the question, ‘Is Ellie wrong to have killed the soldiers?’ In some instances Ellie is right to kill the soldiers, for example; Ellie was right to have killed the soldiers as it was in self-defence; it was either they kill her or she kills them. To protect her friends from the worse she made a hard and terrible discussion to take another person’s life. In other instances Ellie is wrong to kill the soldiers, for example; Ellie could have just wounded them and give them a chance to retreat instead of killing them. In chapters 7 and 8, more than one act of killing occurs, the first is the dead of most of the pet and farm animals which is unusual as most animals could have been used as source of food and a companion and the second is different, Ellie is forced to kill the soldiers as they become a fret to her and her friends. Wirrawee is their home where they should be able to feel safe and welcome but instead felt fear and terror. In hell they had the comfit of safety by the shelter which protected them from the war outside although it was enclosed. The group of friends return home from their trip to find no one home and Ellie’s puppies have died of thirst and hunger and the mother is in a weak condition also the cow was found unmilked which can result in...
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...By definition, to be a soldier is to be engaged in military service, especially the Army. To me, being a professional American soldier means so much more than that. To begin with, not everyone has what it takes to be a soldier, and even fewer people have what it takes to be an American soldier. I take pride in serving my country and defending the people I love. I believe that to be a professional soldier you must uphold honor, respect, integrity, courage, and loyalty at all times. In order to be a professional soldier you must exceed being an example of an individual who displays honor. An honorable individual is honest and shows integrity in their actions and beliefs. Honor to me is standing by your own convictions when they are correct and...
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...The Holy Trinity; Fear, Shame, and Courage The Things They Carried Essay Fear; the controller. Shame; the feeling of guilt. Courage; the sound of a lion's roar. All feelings align together like a perfect puzzle piece. Tim O'Brien in The Things They Carried does an impeccable job conveying the cause and effect relationship between fear and courage, shame and courage, and fear and shame. In The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien continuously shows the reader how fear drives courage and sometimes leads to an unthinkable, but act in a courageous manner. The chapter Enemies portrays how if one feels enough shame, this shame will lead to a courageous act. “Because late that same night he borrowed a pistol, gripped it by the barrel, and used it...
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...The last group, and one that I relate to more than any other group is the United States Army. They have a set of seven values that are instilled in to every soldier from the time you arrive at basic training and stay with you until you leave. These values help you grow as a soldier, a professional, and as a person. The seven army values are easily remembered in an acronym, L.D.R.S.H.I.P, which I believe is motivating because any soldier who displays each of these values; he or she will become an amazing soldier and grow to become a great leader. Before you can become a great leader you have to know what it stands for: Loyalty: Bear true faith and allegiance to the US Constitution, US Army, your unit, fellow soldiers, and yourself. Duty: Fulfill your obligations. The legal and moral obligation to do what should be done without being told. Respect: Treat people how they should be treated. Selfless Service: Put the welfare of the Nation, the Army, and your subordinates before your own. Honor: Live up to all of the army values. Integrity: Do what’s right legally and morally. Doing what is right even when no one is looking. Personal Courage: Face fear, danger, or adversity (both physical and moral) When a soldier follows these seven beliefs he is paving his or her way to not only become a great soldier, but an amazing leader. Displaying these...
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...How far do sources 2 and 3 support the view of the Charge of the Light Brigade given in source 1? The charge of the light brigade was an important moment in British military history and the strategy of this battle and the military leaders came under huge scrutiny. The 3 sources I am going to tale about are descriptions of the Charge of the light brigade, in this essay I will compare and analyse each source and work out how far sources 2 and 3 support the view of source 1. Source 1 is from Timothy Gowing, who was in the British army and an eye witness to the charge of the light brigade, it was published in the ‘Ranks’ in 1895. He describes how the ‘field was covered with the wreck of men and horses’ this gives you the image of how the battle really was, that the battle had clearly not gone well and they had lost many men and horses. He also says how ‘an officer very kindly lent me his field-glass’ this is indirectly praising the hierarchy of the British army, he is portraying them as caring and trying to take the blame off them for how badly the battle went. He also makes a point of how savage and brutal the Russians are, he says how the enemy were ‘hacking at the wounded’ and that they were ‘bloodthirsty’ this is trying to remove the blame from British incompetence. However Gowing does praise and recognise the courage of the normal British soldiers. Source 2 is from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poet and published in a newspaper in 1954, he was also the poet of the queen. As the...
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...Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage mean. But how often do you see someone actually live up to them? Soldiers learn these values in detail during Basic Combat Training (BCT), from then on they live them every day in everything they do — whether they’re on the job or off. In short, the Seven Core Army Values listed below are what being a Soldier is all about. Loyalty Bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit and other Soldiers. Bearing true faith and allegiance is a matter of believing in and devoting yourself to something or someone. A loyal Soldier is one who supports the leadership and stands up for fellow Soldiers. By wearing the uniform of the U.S. Army you are expressing your loyalty. And by doing your share, you show your loyalty to your unit. Duty Fulfill your obligations. Doing your duty means more than carrying out your assigned tasks. Duty means being able to accomplish tasks as part of a team. The work of the U.S. Army is a complex combination of missions, tasks and responsibilities — all in constant motion. Our work entails building one assignment onto another. You fulfill your obligations as a part of your unit every time you resist the temptation to take “shortcuts” that might undermine the integrity of the final product. Respect Treat people as they should be treated. In the Soldier’s Code, we pledge to “treat others with dignity and respect while expecting others to do the same.” Respect is what allows...
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...The Red Badge of Courage is a fictional psychological portrait of a young soldier named Henry Fleming, tracing the thread of his emotions and reactions to events that transpire during an unnamed battle of the Civil War (spark notes). Henry is an average farmer from New York. Henry wants to go to war and become a hero like the one he read about in his school. The story starts off with everyone sitting in regiment camp by the river with rumors flowing around. While everyone is thinking about what they will do in war, Henry was thinking of how is he going to react when he goes to the battlefields. How would he react if he was to die? He said, no matter what happens he will not run from a fight. Two of the other guys in the army had about the same courage as Henry, but none of them ever said that they will not run away. Before he can go on to fight in battle, the army puts him in a battle to see if he runs away from fight or not. The northern army is finally put on the move and marched across the river, where they meet with Southern forces. Henry's regiment takes a reserve position, so Henry gets to see a battle before going in to an action himself. Finally his regiment drives back the enemy and Henry feels a joy of success. Then enemy charges again, but Henry flees thinking his regiment will be overrun by the enemy. As he running and trying to justify to himself why he is running. When he gets to the woods he sees a dead man in a clearing. Henry takes the man...
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...chapter “On the Rainy River” in The Things They Carried to show the interconnection between fear, shame, and courage. Fear of shame motivates the soldiers to show acts of courage. O’Brien rhetorically uses the repetition of questions and the to show the feeling of being ashamed to not fight in the war therefore, showing courageous actions. “ Was it a civil war? A war of national liberation or simple aggression? Who started it, and when, and why?”(38) Tim O’Brien...
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...team one fight America's Theater Army in the Pacific - assuring security and stability. Their vision is pretty tight with their mission that pretty much is to keep America safe and stable. During the past years America has been in war with the terrorists all around the world. Trying to mitigate and ensuring to keep a safe place. The Army values are divided into seven that are: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. The army values are what soldiers learn how to live according to these values in basic training; these values are what constitute a transition between being a civilian and becoming a Soldier. The Seven Core Army Values listed below are what being a Soldier is about. LOYALTY Consists of bearing true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit and other Soldiers. Bearing true faith and allegiance is a matter of believing in and devoting yourself to something or someone. A loyal Soldier is one who supports the leadership and stands up for fellow Soldiers. By wearing the uniform of the U.S. Army you are...
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...Condoms were the most surprising item because you would think the soldiers would be focusing on staying alive not sex. I find dog tags most evocative of the war because it brings strong images of soldiers dying and the need of identification to mind. 2. In what sense does Jimmy love Martha? Why does he construct this elaborate, mostly fictional, relationship with her: What does he get out of it? Jimmy desires Martha but the feelings are not mutual. In his mind they are going to live happily ever after and that helps him cope with what he’s seen and done during the war. His fantasy gives him a place to escape the death and bloodshed. He gets to hold onto the piece of his sanity and mental health he has left. He gets motivation to keep going and stay alive. 3. Why do the soldiers tell jokes...
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...1. Courage involves confidence in the face of fear, best exhibited on the battlefield, where men show themselves unafraid to die an honorable death. Aristotle says that the most frightening thing is death but the courageous is not concerned with this and the most terrible things. Death of these men that are considered courageous happen on the battlefield amongst the greatest and noblest danger. A courageous man is one who is fearless in facing a noble death. A courageous person is fearless, but his fearlessness must exist under certain circumstances to be considered courageous. A circumstance as when a person faces death on the battlefield. He continues to say that the truly brave person fears the proper things in the proper amounts....
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...to shine a light on the way soldiers view the idea of bravery in the Vietnam War. In the chapters “The Things They Carried,” and “Speaking of Courage,” the author describes how the soldiers had come to fear the idea of not being courageous, perhaps because, if one was not brave enough, they would perish in the strange and foreign land of Vietnam. However, a more plausible reason for them acting in this manner could be because they were expected, as both men and soldiers, to not show fear when times got hard, even if they’re terrified. The soldiers were expected to put on a strong front and be unshaken by the horrors of Vietnam. Moreover, the extent of this practice is shown in how they were expected to not...
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...In the novel The Red Badge of Courage the characteristics of doubt, death and separation shows the community. The Red Badge of Courage takes place at the battle of Chancellorsville, that battle takes place May 1st-3rd. The battle of Chancellorsville was one of the bloodiest battles in the entire Civil war. The american civil war had a negative effect in the people living both in the north and south due to high death tolls, poverty, and general animosity. “He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity. He saw that he would again have to experiment as he had in early youth. He must accumulate information of himself, and meanwhile he resolved to remain close upon his guard lest those qualities of which he knew nothing should everlastingly disgrace him” (Crane, 25).In this passage it shows Henry’s initial fear about whether he has the courage to face battle or not. He thinks that war is created just to make heros and when men turn into soldiers it will...
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