...year old sister Setsuko who managed to survive during the Kobe fire bombings in the end of the World War two. Themes Every movie is based on some or the other real life instances and movies mainly focuses on a particular point similarly this movie reflects about the result of war or effects on the people due to war, lot of people were dead and many people lost their families. The relationship between Seita and Setsuko is the key theme of the movie. This tells us about how brother Seita took responsibility of his sister Setsuko in spite of the way his aunt treated them after they lost their mother who was badly injured during the fire bombings. The sacred love between brother and sister continues. Characters Seita: The responsibility taken by Seita at a very young age towards his little sister was apparent throughout the movie. His commitments towards his sister even more increased after his mother’s death and the way they were treated by their distant aunt. The caring love he showed to his sister was ultimate; he even carried her on his shoulders when she was unhealthy in spite of fire bombings and difficulties he faced during the bombings. He always tried to give his best to her. He lonely took his sister to the doctor for the treatment but he could not keep her alive as he was not having enough money and the doctor was also not so kind. If he had made any incorrect decisions, it was because of his innocence and pride. Setsuko: A four year old girl (sister of Seita)...
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...Little Women Little Women was written in 1868-1869, the setting is New England in the 19th Century during and after the Civil War. The story begins at Christmas time. The girl’s father is away in the war. It is Christmas and there are memories of better times. But this Christmas their father is in the war and they have no means of support and very little money. There will be no presents and the beautiful breakfast they had put together is given away to a family who has no food. It is not a happy time for the sisters and their mother, who they call Marmee. The main characters are the March sisters. The oldest sister is Meg. She is kind, responsible and very moral. She watches out for her younger sisters and makes sure they do not act inappropriately. She is very aware of social expectations for them as young women of the time. Josephine March is the second oldest sister and is referred to as Jo. She is the protagonist of the novel and her character is probably based on the author, Louisa May Alcott herself. Jo has a temper and is outspoken. She is very intelligent and wants to be a writer. Beth is the third sister and is very shy and reserved. She has a very caring and tender personality and loves to play the piano. Amy is the youngest sister. She is very beautiful and artistic and dreams of marrying a wealthy man who will take care of her. Her character serves as a foil for Jo’s character. Amy wishes and dreams of marrying a wealthy man and being taken care...
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...Explore the ways that Susan Hill presents Hilliard’s character in Part 1 of Strange Meeting. From the very beginning of the novel ‘Strange Meeting’, the character Susan Hill creates called John Hilliard is a soldier on sick leave in the First World War. “He is a man of few words” as he is described later in Part 1. Hilliard cannot express his feelings openly but has to have someone who he can trust greatly and feel safe with. He has sleeping difficulties throughout Part 1 caused by the fact that he does not want to be at his home in Hawton by the Sea. He has never had a relationship with his family, “He had been unhappy at home, where he could talk to no one, nobody knew”. He couldn’t relate his experiences of war with people who didn’t understand the true devastation of it, who thought that it was an easy done deal, that the British were going to win over the Germans, it would all be over by Christmas and blood wasn’t being spilt. The only person in his family he is close to and has a relationship with is his older sister Beth. John Hilliard trusts and knows that his sister Beth will understand his disturbances from the war that are giving him constant nightmares. He depended on her to relate to him, because know one else did, but he wouldn’t let anybody else in to his inner circle, “Beth, Beth. He had always gone to Beth.” Baths support for John was shown in a memory of when the two of them were swimming in the sea one summer holiday. Beth helped John overcome his fear...
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...Touch Wood Touch Wood is based on the author¹s own life when she was growing as a Jewish girl during the German invasion of France. In 1940, Renée and her family were living in Alsace, France, where nothing ever changed. No one expected anything unusual to happen. Then one day, a war with Germany is announced on the radio. The Germans wanted to annex Alsace and forced the Jews to leave. France was split into two zones- the Free Zone and the German occupied zone. Renée¹s father chose for them to move to Paris, because it is a big city where he can find work, and also because Renée¹s mother has childhood friends there. So, Renée, her parents, her two younger sisters, and their blind grandmother move into a crowded apartment in the German-occupied zone. Renée was disappointed in Paris when she arrived. She finds that everything seems to be smaller in Paris. Eventually, her new neighborhood becomes more of a home and helps Renée to miss Alsace a little less. Renée¹s parents had left Poland and then Hungary to find a freer, better life. They settled in France and thought they¹d be safe. Then Adolf Hitler, a German man who hated Jewish people, started trouble all over again. First, seven synagogues were blown up. Then, the Germans created a curfew prohibiting Jews to go during certain hours. Any Jew caught in the street after curfew would be taken as hostage. Also, all Jewish people must wear a Star of David on their shirts. An ordinance is created requiring all Jewish...
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...GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Japanese 火垂るの墓 Hepburn Hotaru no haka Directed by Isao Takahata Produced by Toru Hara Written by Isao Takahata Based on Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka Starring Tsutomu Tatsumi Ayano Shiraishi Yoshiko Shinohara Akemi Yamaguchi Music by Michio Mamiya Cinematography Nobuo Koyama Edited by Takeshi Seyama Production company Studio Ghibli Distributed by Toho Release dates 17 April 1988 Running time 89 minutes Country Japan Language Japanese REVIEW The movie told about world war II. During world war II, Japan and America were enemies. The people were poor and hungry. During events like planes were bombing, the Japanese go to safe houses called shelter that secure them. After bombing there was “black rain”. In the movie the characters Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, must go to the shelter before the planes with bombs will arrived. This gave me knowledge about the happenings during world war II. I only thought before that only our country, Philippines was affected. After the bombing, His mom died because of too much injuries and burns. I felt sad because the main character Seita, saw his mother wearing bandage all over her body and saw her death. Because he wanted to not hurt his sister’s feelings, he kept his mother’s death as a secret. He was such a caring brother. If I was on his feet, I will do the same. Setsuko was such an innocent child. On the other hand his father was a soldier and can’t take care of them. That’s why they went to their...
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...extend the boundary line of Naubuc Farms 5 miles to the East, purchasing the land from the natives, forming Eastbury. By 1690, residents of Naubuc Farms had gained permission from the General Court to become a separate town and, in 1693, Glassenbury came into existence. The ties have not been completely broken: the oldest continuously operating ferry in the United States still runs between South Glastonbury and Rocky Hill, also then a part of Wethersfield, as it did as far back as 1655. During the Revolution, Glassenbury was home to George Stocking’s gunpowder factory, one of few gunpowder factories supplying George Washington’s troops. After his death in an explosion his wife Eunice continued operating the mill until the end of the war. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Glastenbury was a shipbuilding town, located between the Connecticut River, oak forests and...
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...Angelou uses similes consistently throughout her memoir to describe her feelings in various situations. For example, Angelou portrays the extravagant personality of Sister Monroe through a simile: “Then suddenly, like a summer rain, Sister Monroe broke through the cloud of people trying to hem her in, and flooded up to the pulpit” (42). In other words, Sister Monroe is similar to a summer rain because of her spontaneous nature. Angelou uses this simile to illustrate the increasing passion Sister Monroe feels during the Sunday service and in her perspective, Sister Monroe’s actions are abrupt and cannot be prevented by anyone who steps in her way. Angelou’s point of view makes the service appear comical by creating an emotional and uncontrollable...
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...Thomas Jackson is considered by many as one of the greatest generals in U.S. history. Jackson was involved in two wars. Of the two wars, he is most known for his leadership in the civil war as a confederate general. Jackson was involved in the first real battle of the Civil War, in which he led 10,000 troops. Though Jackson had a good military career, other parts of his life were filled with bad memories of close ones dieing. Thomas Jackson was born January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg Virginia. The parents of Jackson were Jonathan and Julia Jackson. Thomas had 4 siblings, two brothers and two sisters. When Thomas was 2 years old his sister Elizabeth fell ill with typhoid fever. Shortly after getting typhoid his sister gave it to his father...
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...entertain, and infrom the reader in issues of war, society, and religion has brought him much praise and even reproach. He has encountered many struggles to convey his life's work. Throughout many of Vonnegut's works, we are shown his ability to turn major events in his life into satirical dark humor. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis Indiana. He spent most of his life and adolesnce in Indianapolis and is very thankfull."What people like about me is Indianoplis" (The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial). Kurt graduated Shortridge High, where he was a writer and editor of his school newspaper. Later he attended Cornwell University. Kurt hoped to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps in becoming an architect. Due to the economic crisis that fell in 1929 that lasted through the 1960s known as the Great Depression, Kurt was urged by his father to major in something else. He decided to study Biology and Chemistry. Later he attended Carnegie Institute of Techology and the University of Tennesse. At 20 years of age when World War II broke Vonnegut enlisted into the army. In 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge in Dreseden Germany,Vonnegut was captured and became a prisoner of war. Vonnegut and fellow POWs where kept to work in a factory that produced vitamins, and were sent to dorm in an under ground slaughterhouse. Later Soviet troops took over and Vonnegut was freed. Much of what he experienced during the war can be found in his books. (Shields 28) ...
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...Perception is not in black and white, it is multifaceted. From a philosophical standpoint, one can equate perception to staring out of a window; when one stares out of a window their focus isn’t in just one direction because many things could be happening at once. At the very beginning of Tim O’Brien’s, “The Things They Carried,” the narrator introduces Rat to the reader, and mentions that Rat is writing his fallen comrade’s sister a letter expressing his condolences: “Rat tells her what a great brother she had, how together the guy was, a real number one pal and comrade. A real soldier’s soldier, Rat says. Then he tells a few stories to make the point…how her brother made the war seem almost fun, always raising hell and lighting up villes...
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...Richie Burner ENWR-106 How to Tell a True War Story 26 February, 2013 If you don’t know how to analyze writing and don’t understand metaphoric speaking then this is not a story for you. O’Brien constantly goes against every Americans thoughts of a war story; he tells the reader that they’re all fake. O’Brien believes war stories don’t actually have to do with people do with heroic things, because every solider is a hero. The average person who was not in combat would not get a true war story because no one has experienced what soldier’s experience. They have seen things and felt things emotionally that no other person will ever see or feel. A ex soldier out look on life is completely different than your average person because they are use to different life style. So all this boils down to one thing, no one will ever understand soldier’s and O’Brien uses “How to Tell a True War Story” to prove this. Through out the story O’Brien talks to the reader as if they don’t know anything. Although he has to approach the reader like this so he can thoroughly explain his point. Since no one understands a soldier’s life he has to write this way, the misunderstanding of soldiers is proven within the first page of the story when rat explains his friend to his sister in a letter that he sent her. “ Stainless steel balls, Rat tells her. The guy was a little crazy, for sure, but crazy in a good way, a real daredevil, because he liked the challenge of it, he liked testing him self, just...
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...What We Learn from “The Things They Carried” “War is a bitch” (O’Brien 30), said Azar, an American soldier who joined Vietnam War. War doesn’t bring anything good to anybody. It just creates sorrow and pains to people. In “The Things They Carried”, the author Tim O’Brien shows us a realistic picture of what the war in Vietnam was like. He demonstrates how brutal the war is and the horrible reality of death in war, and how soldiers deal with the pain. This novel should be on the reading selections of The Interpretation of Literature because as it is a novel composed of war stories, it brings some enlightening endeavor and educational experiences to make us understand more about the war. To make us have an objective perspective of what happened in Vietnam War in 1968, O’Brien let us know a little about each soldier and what they carried with them along with the war in the first chapter. The “things” that the soldiers carried were both literal and figurative. The soldiers carry out of necessity for survival, such as guns, helmets, and other forms of weaponry, as well as things they carry more out of habit. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from Martha, a girl that he loved. “Henry Dobbins, who was a big man, carried extra rations, Dave Jensen, who practiced field hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and several hotel-sized bars of soap. Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers”(2). O’Brien also describes specifically the weight of the item that...
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...hospitals had been built but quickly became places of horror as unsanitary conditions caused them to be a source of epidemics and disease. In 1545 -the council of Trent decreed that every community of women should live in strict enclosure. It took over 200 years of resistance for women to overcome this decree. The nursing sisters of France made little or no resistance such that their professional standards deteriorated. In the late 1500's - several groups began nursing and tending the sick, poor, and dying. These groups were St. Francis de Sales, the Order of the Visitation of Mary, St. Vincent DePaul, the Sisters of Charity, Dames de Charite', Louise le Gras, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John, Albuquerque, Order of St. Augustine, St. Camillas De Lellis, Jeanne Biscot, and the Nursing Sisters of St. Joseph de La Fleche. Many of these people came from rich and influential families. The dark ages of nursing lasted for three centuries until the mid 2800's when Florence Nightingale brought about a change. Nursing during the Medieval Ages Either done by charitable religious orders or by the poor who worked for the rich. Nuns or sisters in a cloistered order made up the nursing staff in hospitals. Late Middle Ages Repression of women and cloistered orders by the...
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...began as a period known as Golden Age. It was a period without greed or war. How long the golden age lasted is unknown, however when Kronos married his sister Rhea he started the next generation of gods called the Olympians. Kronos was told by his father and his mother that he would be overthrown by his own children just as his father was overthrown by him. Kronos decided that he would prevent this from happening by devouring his own children after they were born. This is what makes Kronos famous because he ate his own children.. He ate almost all of his children except one child, his son Zeus the god of the sky. Rhea gave birth to him in a cave and hid him in that cave on the island of Crete and gave Kronos a stone wrapped in cloth. Until Zeus was able to defeat Kronos, he lived in that cave in Crete and was raised by Nymphs until he became an adult. According to "Some of The World's Most Amazing Sacred Caves." (National Geographic) “Crete has more than 3,000 caves, many associated with the gods of Greek mythology and with goddess worship practiced by the Minoans, a Bronze-Age civilization that lasted from 2600 to 1100 B.C. ” There are many different stories on how Zeus defeated Kronos, such as Zeus making a mixture of mustard and wine that caused Kronos to regurgitate his brothers and sisters. Another version would be Zeus slicing Kronos’s stomach open and freeing his brothers and sisters. Zeus even freed the children of Gaia that Uranus imprisoned According...
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...Fireweed Fireweed, a short story written by Shy Brannon in 2009, is about a boy named Baluta, or Joel. Baluta works as an uneducated carpenter in the United States. He lives with his brother Jato and tis sister-in-law Sama. The tree of them had to flee from Liberia, because of war and destruction where Jato saw his father and Sisters death. I believe the story takes place around 1989 (– 1996,) just before the first Liberian civil war raged: The war will be coming our way soon. The main themes in the story are taking things for granted or not just value the things you have in life. Some of the smaller themes or sub themes are war, culture differences and racism. The main character is Baluta, who is originating from Liberia in Africa. He has moved to USA, and now lives in a ghetto with his brother and sister-in-law. He works as a carpenter. The story is a day in Balutas’ life. He has got a job for Mrs Giles (Tiffany), she is an over class women. That lives in a big house with her boyfriend/man. When he arrives to the house where he needs to fix some cabins, even though he doesn’t she the problem he starts to fix it. When he first arrives Tiffany is very suspect about him, and wont open the door for him, this look on her face makes him think of his father’s monkey-traps back in Liberia. Though the story he gets flashback, or jus remembering the time in Liberia, so we sort of get a background far about him. For example, Tiffany is wearing a diamond, which that makes him...
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