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Britains response to WWI
Brittany made a poster with the quotation “I want YOU for the army”. The British people got dragged by the poster and they saw the war as an opportunity to become war-heroes. Under the war
Poems
We have been working with two poems in the last module. “The soldier” by Rubert Brooke and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
The Soldier
This poem by Rubert Brooke is as you very easily can see, putting England in a very god light. England is being praised to the sky, and Rubert Brooke can look a little bit self-laudatory since he is saying that if he dies, England will just become some corner of a foreign field. But I think that he wrote this poem, to give the English people a picture of how all English soldiers thinks about their country and them self and how valuable they are for their country.
Dulce et Decorum est
This poem is quite the same as “The Soldier”. The message is just completely different than the message “the Soldier” have. Both poems is showing how soldiers think doing a soldiers job, but in “Dulce et Decorum est” it is a more negative way the picture of how a soldier thinks, there is being explained by Wilfred Owen.
The battle of Hiroshima
The battle of Hiroshima took place 19 February– 26 March 1945 and it was the first American attack on Japanese soil. It was America who attacked the Japanese property. The reason why they wanted that island was because they needed airstrips close to Japan. The Japanese would of cause protect their island so they were well prepared. Actually they had prepared this battle for years. They had made this protection valley which was build up with bunkers connected by tunnels. While fighting, the soldiers had only one thing on their mind: to survive! It was no longer the country they fought for. It just became a big bloody mess. 21,850 of the Japanese people out of 22,060 died and about 26.000 of the 70.000 American soldiers were killed. After about a month of fighting The Japanese people ran out of ammunition and lost.
27 medals were given out to soldiers from Hiroshima. That was 28% of all medals there were given out under WWII
The last enemy - Richard Hillary
This essay is about Richard Hillary thoughts as a soldier under WWII. In the start of the story, he is on his job as a pilot. After a battle in the sky, it occurred to him that he never even considered that he could die up there. At the time he came down, he felt this happiness and relief, as he should feel. His job was done and he never thought about getting killed up there, as he was supposed to. He describes the feelings a pilot is supposed to have as cool, precise and impersonal: “The fighter pilot’s emotions are those of the duelist – cool, precise, impersonal. ...Death should be given the setting it deserves; it should never be a pettiness; and for the fighter pilot it never can be.” In the end of this quotation it can be seen how he does not underestimate death, but he also said that, he easily could forget how lucky a pilot is: “He was dead and I was alive; it could so easily have been the other way around”
In the start of the text, where he is writing about his flight experience, it has some excitement in it, but later when he is on the ground and sees the result of warfare it accurse to him, how horrible it is on the ground. A lady is hurt and he comes over to see her and she said “I see they got you too”. That was her last words. He gets a horrifying feeling after she said that to him: “All humanity had been in those few words, and I had cursed her. Slowly the frenzy died in me, the rage oozed out of me, leaving me could, shivering and bitterly ashamed.” He thinks that he has cursed her because he feels like he has been responsible to the horror on the ground.
This is a picture of how he thinks a pilot must feel about the war, the first time he is on the ground and are experiencing the war: “This was what I had been cursing – in part, for I had recognized in that moment what It was Peter and others had instantly recognized as evil and to be destroyed utterly.” That means this “Peter” who is Hillary’s closest fighter-pilot friend, must have experienced this feeling he got, when Hillary saw the warfare on the ground. In the end he says: “Great God, that I could have been so arrogant”. This means he must have felt it took him to long time to get this feeling, and understand what there was happening on the ground.
Letter home from Vietnam