...He who was making armor on a normal day. One day he accidentally hit his hand and couldn't make armor for the soldiers who were going to battle. The battle had begun and the soldier who didn’t have armor went to battle and died. The citizens blamed Lee Song He for what happen to the soldier. He quit his job as an armor maker. He traveled to a place called Xinyang where his hand had healed and he got a job as a soldier. Lee Song He first sparring practice was horrible because he can't hold his spear properly and the other soldiers were talking about him. The first soldier said, “Man that guy can’t hold his spear properly” and the second soldier said,” I bet he can’t even hold a butter knife”. After years of training he can attack,...
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...Next War The author portrays Death as a personified character who does not cause the soldiers fear or grief. Although death has come in many forms the soldier has accepted that it is everywhere and has become unaffected by it. This is emphasised in the epigraph in the first stanza and further supported in the first line of the second stanza “we’ve walked quite friendly up to Death, sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland”. This highlights the soldier’s acceptance of death and war and how they relate. The soldier has ‘leagued with him’ and so the soldiers laugh as they have killed just like Death has. Anthem for Doomed Youth This poem draws an analogy between the death of the soldiers and a traditional funeral. It is ironically titled an ‘anthem’ which is usually praiseful or celebratory. The author makes a direct comparison between the ‘choirs’ and the wailing of Shells, and prayers to the rapid sounds of machine guns and rifles. The opening line the soldiers are referred to as cattle, which emphasize how insignificant each live is in the war scene. There are no prayers or choirs mourning for the soldiers who are slaughtered on the battlefield. It is only in the last few lines that the author portrays the silent grieving of the families and loved ones at home. The mood of the poem changes as the author then contrasts the emotion felt back home compared to the ‘cattle’ like death of the soldiers who are around other men whose death mean as little as their own. ...
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...it’s not the same Vietnam Veteran begging for change. Homeless on the corner with a uniform on, George W. Bush you know you wrong. Dignity and Respect I fought for you, What good is a flag if they didn’t get through? Notes: 1. Dignity and Respect… paraphrase from “An Essay on Death and President Bush I serve my…paraphrase from “Over the Years” by Christine Gordon, p.326-321 of Operation Homecoming and from An Essay on Death and President Bush, web. by E.L. Doctorow, by Democratic Underground. I choose to use a paraphrase of both reading material to bring an emotional feeling about soldier. 2. They swore me… paraphrase from “Over the Years” by Christine Gordon, p.326-321 of Operation Homecoming and from An Essay on Death and President Bush, web. by E.L. Doctorow, by Democratic Underground. I choose to use a combine finish thought of both reading of the soldier emotions of President Bush of not caring about causalities of war. 3. They sent me… paraphrase from “Over the Years” by Christine Gordon, p.326-321 of Operation Homecoming and from An Essay on Death and President Bush, web. by E.L. Doctorow, by Democratic Underground. I choose to use this to show the courage of a soldier to serve and protect. 4. But I serve…paraphrase from “Over the Years” by Christine Gordon, p.326-321 of Operation Homecoming and from An Essay...
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...subject and style of most of his writing. Richard Le Gallienne, in his poems “Soldier Going To The War” and “Ad Cimmerios”, conveys the Romantic ideal of nationalism, a Lost Generation focus on wartime and its aftermath, a Gothic preoccupation with death and tones of hopefulness and pride through the use of tense changes, figurative language, repetitive structure, allusion and apostrophe. “Soldier Going To The War” elucidates both Lost Generation influences with its focus on war, and Romantic influences with its nationalistic theme. Le Gallienne offers parallel hopeful and prideful tones in this poem along with its parallel structure. The first two stanzas address a soldier who is “going to” the war, while the last two shift to address a soldier who is “coming from” the war. This structure creates a sense of completion and victory that the reader can follow through the poem. The first two stanzas are effective in creating a hopeful tone through rhetorical questioning; the narrator asks if the soldier will “take [their] heart with [them]” in order to “share” in the “famous things” the soldier will accomplish. Le Gallienne also employs pathos in the second stanza; the narrator asks “if in battle [the soldier] must fall”, would they remember their face “last of all”. This exudes a tone of hopefulness as well; the narrator accepts that the soldier may die, yet still finds a way to make a promise in death. The last two...
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...WWII was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of the total death toll. WWII, unlike any war previously, was a total war and involved the deliberate targeting of civilians. Soldiers, members of both the Allied and Axis Powers suffered immensely throughout the war. The Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of over 6 million Jews and non-Semitics , arose as a result of Hitler’s fascist ideals and saw widespread suffering. As a result of the new technological advances throughout the war, bombing became a major tactic and many major cities were destroyed, which resulted in the death and evacuation of many civilians and widespread suffering. Rations were introduced because of a restricted food supply. This shortage resulted in the death of many civilians and soldiers. Resistance fighters, if captured, would face certain death at...
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...hostility, 10 million teenage boys died in World War I, one of the deadliest wars history has known. Referred to as “the lost generation”, the surviving soldiers returned home with a different vision of the world. War drastically altered their once-happy lives, changing their values and beliefs along the way. Too experienced to fit in with children and too innocent to join elder men, the soldiers found themselves incapable of appreciating life, for their youth had been destroyed. Incapacitated of viewing a future or remembering a past, soldiers soon only believed in war. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque depicts his gruesome experience of the war through the despairing narration...
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...Carried deals with Death as a complicated subject of interpretation of the American soldiers and the public. Although this theme is dealt with throughout the book, He explicitly symbolizes the notion of mortality with the search for Kiowa’s body that presents a line of demarcation of mortality. The perspectives of Jimmy Cross, Azar, and O’Brien symbolize feelings of the American soldiers and public. While Jimmy Cross represents the soldiers whom are greatly affected by a comrade’s death, Azar’s unempathetic view of death represents the American public who saw soldier’s deaths as a number indicating the current winner of the war. In the search for Kiowa’s body, O’Brien utilizes...
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...(Darius) Title: fear of death “Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.” (Bacon). Children are scared of the dark because it always gives you the feeling of death. This feeling is the fear of the unknown. In Charles Harrison’s Generals Die in Bed, lots of soldiers must face this fear because they can be killed at anytime in the war. In contrast, they have to hide their fear as much as possible because their strength shows the power of their country. When they cannot hide anymore, their fear comes out in three different ways: begging others, crying to release the pressure, and running away from the war. They do these things to survive the cruelty of war. This cruelty pressures the soldiers until they finally break and show their true emotion. When soldiers face death, they can do anything to survive, even beg their enemies. To begin with, during the raid on German trenches, the protagonist lunges Karl, a German soldier, by his bayonet. Karl shrieks lots of times and he wants to stop the pain, so he helps the protagonist to withdraw the rifle with piteous eyes (Harrison, pg62). Karl knows that he will die but he does not want to suffer from the pain. He is afraid of dying painfully, as a result he chooses to express his fear and beg the enemy to pull off the bayonet. His reaction shows that he is tired of pretending to be strong; he just wants to release his pain and fear before death. Also, the protagonist and other soldiers are almost insane because...
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...of warfare and combat. People were overcome with a sense of nationalism, and they believed that to fight in war was both a privilege and honor. When sending their youth to war, the ______ did not realize that, if the soldiers returned, they would most likely come back both physically and mentally crippled. Wilfred Owen, a soldier and poet, understood the detrimental effects combat had on the soldiers, and tried to change the population’s misleading ideas on war. This was done through the wartime poetry he wrote, including the poem Dulce et Decorum est. Through the use of imagery and diction, Wilfred Owen alters society’s previous beliefs on war and displays the cruel and gruesome reality of living and fighting as a soldier. Owen utilizes imagery in order to describe the horrors of war by explaining the pitiful state of the soldiers. He writes, “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,/ Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge…” (Owen 1-2). This sentence allows the audience to visualize the...
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...The Hollow In war, soldiers are forced to rid themselves of any emotion so that they can focus on the task at hand. They cannot allow themselves to falter at any moment, knowing that the decisions they make are a matter of life or death. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, the soldier’s boots and a herd of horses are used to demonstrate how war dehumanizes the men by effectively stealing their innocence and transforming them into hardened adults. Kemmerich’s boots passed down to Müller and eventually to Paul show how the soldiers must only look after their own well-being to stay alive. As Kemmerich lies on his deathbed Müller surveys his boots and notes how “out here one can make some use of them” (16). Müller is not paying any attention to the fact that his beloved friend and comrade is...
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...accurately show the real experiences of soldiers in war, and in class the students encountered many. All Quiet on the Western Front and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” all clearly demonstrate the theme of horrors of war through imagery the reader could easily understand. In Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, he talks about the experiences of young soldiers who enter the war and pities them. Their death is meaningless because there is no way to properly honor their passing in the middle of a battlefield, therefore none get their rightful recognition. The soldiers fighting “die as cattle”, comparing their lives to slaughtering animals and making each death just another...
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...People look at soldiers as either heroes or killers. In the time around World War I, the Front soldiers are more like animals. In All Quiet in the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, the soldiers on the Front are faced with life or death situations and have to use their instincts to survive. Paul Baumer is the main character and has his group of friends that were convinced to join the military by one of their old teachers. They go into the war as young men who have a bright future and are doing this to be looked at as brave. These young soldiers are instantly mortified by the dramatic deaths taking place at the Front. They have to survive off of a small ration of food. The sad part is that the soldiers do not even get sad when people die,...
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...effects of war, the futility of war, and the comradeship between soldiers. These three themes combines help mold All Quiet on the Western Front into the greatest war novel of all time War is very gruesome and grotesque, which Remarque gives insight to throughout the book. Death is continuously around the soldiers, and it almost becomes the norm. “Death is working from within” (Remarque 14). The soldiers feel as though they are slowly dying with all their fellow comrades. Death dehumanizes the soldiers in a way that it makes them forget to realize death is a sad thing. The...
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...There are numerous coping mechanisms, almost all healthy. Nevertheless, for some, healthy coping mechanisms are not a possibility. Tim O’Brien’s the Things They Carried is a novel which shows the emotions Tim O’Brien would undergo through his time throughout the war. Men can deal with uncertainty, anxiety, and death around them in impudent and horrifying ways. When Ted Lavender dies, Cross leads his soldiers into the village of Than Khe to scorch, pillage, and murder everyman they discern, Ted would deal with anxiety by abusing drugs, and Rat would deal with the death of Lemon by shooting a water buffalo 'til it was dead. Firstly, when Ted Lavender is shot in the head while taking a leak when one of the soldiers is searching a hole for Vietcong. Jimmy cross deals with Ted’s death by leading his men to a village named Than Khe where they “burned everything” (O’Brien, 15) and slaughtered everything in sight. The soldiers didn’t falter after being ordered to cause this cruel unhuman act of murder, subsequently the soldiers wanted to kill as it would also help them deal with his death....
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...things each soldier carries depends on the soldier himself including his priorities and his constitutions and also his rank or his specialty for example Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries maps, compasses, and the heavy burden of the responsibility of his men’s lives. A nervous soldier named Ted Lavender carries marijuana and tranquilizers to calm himself down and the religious soldier Kiowa carries an illustrated New Testament and every single one of these men carry the figurative weight of memory, fear, and hope and the literal weight of one another. In this short story the author uses the title symbolically for both the seen and unseen things that men at war carry and to represent the traumas and hardships they have suffered that they will carry for the rest of their lives. These soldiers know they can die at any moment and so when the inevitable happens and a soldier is actually killed in action extra tension stems from the fact that Lt. Cross knows he is responsible. When Ted Lavender is killed in action one of the soldier’s, Kiowa, cannot stop marveling at how fast and hard Lavender hit the ground. “Boom-Down” (277) he repeats to himself and his fellow soldiers. He marvels how he can be pissing one second and dead the next and he tries to make sense of it all. He is bothered with the lack of drama surrounding the death and is mad at the lack of emotion he has towards the death. He claims that it seems “Un-Christian” (277) and has some trouble coping with the death. With Lavender's...
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