Child Of A Former Marine Character Analysis

Improved Essays
As the child of a former marine, I have experienced a copious amount of things that the average child has not. These experiences have affected me as a person in numerous ways. For example, they have made me emotionally mature and have taught me about bonds. These experiences also have made me develop a more cultural perspective of the world.
Experiences affect a person’s character and who they are as a human being. Personally, the experiences that I had went through as a child has impacted my life in a substantial way. For instance, I had become emotionally mature at a faster pace than other children. I had learned that for each time that my family had to move instead of crying about it, I would keep a solemn face and just tell myself that

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    The Bertuli Story It is known that passing stories down from one family member to another keeps the memories alive. The same can be said for those who have served in our military. Getting personal information from someone who has experienced that part of life can be so important in keeping those memories, both good and not-so-good alive. In interviewing Mr. Leonard Bertuli, a United States Marine from Mark, IL, my partner Seth Carlson and I learned more about his life before entering military, his experiences while in the military, specifically during those taking place during the Vietnam war.…

    • 1287 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Effects of War People who serve in wars are affected by them for the rest of their lives. In the fiction novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, it is explained through stories how the war can leave long lasting effects on people. Everyone is scarred by the war, but some have better ways of handling the trauma than others. Wars can change who you are. The Vietnam War had the effect of taking innocent young men and making them unstable.…

    • 594 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are many events throughout a persons life that will change them forever. These events can shape the way that they will react in certain situations. While some of these events might be a horrific accident or it might be best thing that has ever happened to them, they all will affect them in a specific way. People will learn from their mistakes and that's what makes them stronger. I have had many past experiences that have shaped the way I live my life, but the one that I always think about is when I fell through the ice when I was little.…

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Marine Corps Reflection

    • 587 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Being an infantry unit leader in the Marine Corps there is guarantee that a person will be impacted by armed conflict in some nature or another. I have been personally affected by multiple traumatic experiences that resulted in wounded or killed personnel. One of many impacts that I think of often, is when we reacted to an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the south gate of Camp Fallujah detonated under the second and fourth vehicles. When contacted, I was out on a presence patrol and my patrol was the closest unit capable of emergency response. On arrival to the scene it was chaos from the Marines impacted, and we quickly had to set up a cordon around the site, and dispatch sweepers with the corpsman to assist in removing and triaging…

    • 587 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    As a former child of the military, I faced many difficulties growing up. My father's occupation in the Navy, and later in the Army, kept him from home the majority of the year and the days he had off from work were few and far between. The majority of the house chores, as well as the care for my siblings and I, were left on my mother. Even from a young age, I knew my parents were busy people. Consequently, I kept most of my troubles to myself.…

    • 105 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    What Influences Culture Culture is a blend of beliefs, ideas, values, bloodlines, communication patterns, artistic expressions, and ways of life. In many ways, culture makes up every part of a human, it makes them unique and at the same time culture is capable of uniting people. Culture defines how people identify themselves, how people act, and it even defines how people think. People view the world and the things that compose it in different ways, these ways are composed of a variety of factors, and those factors compose one’s culture, factors such as, how one was raised, the environment that said person was raised in, and societal stigmas and norms.…

    • 1212 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My vision started to fail on mile four of the six-mile hike. Small white specks flickered across my field of vision. The next thing to go was my hearing, followed by my ability to walk in a straight line. My platoon sergeant saw the signs of heat stroke and forced me to stop. I should have stopped myself, but all I could think was: you will finish this, or you will die trying.…

    • 250 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Patrick Cawley Analysis

    • 604 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Pat, I visited the war through Patrick Cawley. His story could not have been more unlike what I had expected. Sure, this was a kid of 22 years, but age was not the only thing that astonished me. The fact that affected me the most was that he was like so many people I know. I have heard people tell me the soldiers are just like “you and me”.…

    • 604 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A normal life is the teenage “American Dream”, however, not everyone is privileged enough to even dream about it. Then you have me, I didn’t have the typical life or even dreamed about one, but the life i do have is what made me the adaptable, confident, and outgoing person I am today. Everyone has reasons why they are and act a certain way, most of the time they blame the negative aspects on their past. However, I feel that the good and bad on my past but in the end it transitioned myself from an average teen to an extraordinary teen who is fully prepared for life. I was born an Army dependent child, moving from place to place but mainly during my childhood years.…

    • 384 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Military children get to grow up in a different way than most because of their unique experience of being able to travel all over wherever their parents are stationed at. Michaela Ashe is one of many military children here at GSW. She has had the opportunity to live overseas and was able to travel to many different countries because of her father being in the military. Right before she came back to America she lived in Belgium for three years and because of this her family had to learn the cultural practices there. Also because Belgium being close to other countries she was lucky enough to be able visit other places and see other cultures as well.…

    • 721 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    With the long-term deployment of United States military forces in several regions of the world, has led to new challenges for military members and their families. The constant deployment of a parent or a spouse to a combat zone has developed a challenge not seen in over a decade. Deployment is defined as any assignment away from the service member’s home, whether it is overseas or within the United States, or during peacetime or wartime. The effects of wartime deployments go past the average daily difficulties experienced in family life. The deployment affects the family, spouse, children and the military member.…

    • 759 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Experience can help you learn a lot about things and it can really help you when u need to use that skill unlike reading about it in a book or reading an essay from someone else. In this essay I will be talking about the different ways that experience could benefit you more than reading about it. One way that experience may benefit more than reading about something is in soccer. In soccer you learn how to kick, stop, throw, and punt a ball. You learn the different positions of your foot that your personally like.…

    • 486 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Observing my parents being abusive to not only each other but to us children, I learned and observed why that behavior is wrong and why not to act on that behavior. I did also learn to be responsible for money as well. Because growing up my father made us children work and pay for all our school supplies, clothes and anything that we wanted and or needed. So this did help me as an adult to manage my money responsibly. Both my parents are smokers, seeing them smoke as a child I feel influenced me to start smoking when I was about 15 years old.…

    • 848 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As the daughter of a former U.S. Navy officer, I grew up a military brat. Although we only experienced…

    • 887 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are many things that have impacted my life. The greatest impact in my life so far that has made all the difference was when I went to New Orleans for a band trip. I was hesitant on going because I knew that I would have to pay one hundred dollars every month for about 10 months. My parents and I decided that it would be a great opportunity to go to New Orleans, so I went. We drove down on charter buses.…

    • 261 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays