Different people use different forms of protest, especially when it comes to major events, for an instance, war. Some may use pictures while others may use memes and/or quotes to protest. Writers often use writings and the usage of imagery, irony, and/or structure in their documents serve as the strongest elements in their way to protest.
Writers use imagery such as the soldiers’ fighting condition and the aftermath of the war to describe how rough war is to protest. In Document B: “Dulce et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen describes how “Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots/ But limped on, blood-shod” (5-6). Owen wants the readers to be able to visualize the scene in their head that the soldiers were drained out and marching around with empty foot covered in blood in replacement of their missing boot. Tim O’Brien, the author of Document C: The Things They Carried also uses the same technique of imagery to conclude that a soldier in the name of “Ted Lavender...was shot in the head outside of the village”. The image of a …show more content…
When writers continue repeating a part of of their writing it means they are purposely trying to make it stand out. In a similar case, O’Brien pointed out that “[soldiers] all carry steal helmets that weighed 5 pounds...because the land was mined and booby-trapped” (Document C). O’Brien list items, their weights, and constantly uses the word “because” to explain what the items are used for by the soldiers during the war, their necessities. Self consciousness is visible when Power confessed that “[he] have said that[he] wanted to die, not in the sense of wanting to throw [himself] off of [the] bridge...but more like wanting to sleep forever” (Document D). War is not an easy event to forget and it is very likely to traumatize the witness forever for the rest of their life. Structure gives readers the guideline to what the writers are trying to
Writers use imagery such as the soldiers’ fighting condition and the aftermath of the war to describe how rough war is to protest. In Document B: “Dulce et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen describes how “Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots/ But limped on, blood-shod” (5-6). Owen wants the readers to be able to visualize the scene in their head that the soldiers were drained out and marching around with empty foot covered in blood in replacement of their missing boot. Tim O’Brien, the author of Document C: The Things They Carried also uses the same technique of imagery to conclude that a soldier in the name of “Ted Lavender...was shot in the head outside of the village”. The image of a …show more content…
When writers continue repeating a part of of their writing it means they are purposely trying to make it stand out. In a similar case, O’Brien pointed out that “[soldiers] all carry steal helmets that weighed 5 pounds...because the land was mined and booby-trapped” (Document C). O’Brien list items, their weights, and constantly uses the word “because” to explain what the items are used for by the soldiers during the war, their necessities. Self consciousness is visible when Power confessed that “[he] have said that[he] wanted to die, not in the sense of wanting to throw [himself] off of [the] bridge...but more like wanting to sleep forever” (Document D). War is not an easy event to forget and it is very likely to traumatize the witness forever for the rest of their life. Structure gives readers the guideline to what the writers are trying to