The South's attempts for expansion, justified by the economic need for more land and therefore increased utilization of the growing slave population, appears to have a deeper motivation, the need for the vindication of Southern life. David Herbert Donald, in “Why the War Came: The Sectional Struggle over Slavery in the Territories,” provides a counter view to the South's claims it needed expansion to monetarily survive stating, “there was no special reason why –- apart from the generally expansive temper of all Americans --- for the economic reasons it had to be extended into additional territory.” Why then did the South push so hard to “expand or die”? The South strikes back with calls for expansion due to the belief “they were daily threatened…
War Comes to Willy Freeman Report: By: Malea Wingate I read War Comes to Willy Freeman By: James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. The main character is an African American girl who starts off at the age of thirteen.…
In chapter 1 of A Separate Peace, the narrator, whom has yet to be named, begins telling of when he last visited his school of his high school years, which happened to be during World War II. It had been fifteen years since his last appearance. On his trip of touring the school for the first time since his departure, he had wanted to see two specific places. One of these places turns out to be a tree near the edge of a river, where he and his friends, more specifically his best friend, Phineas or “Finny”, would jump from into the water below. As the narrator stands at the tree he remembers one particular summer night in 1942, in which he and Phineas had jumped from the tree for the very first time.…
“The Things They Carried” demonstrates the effects of war to someone both physically and mentally. The story takes place with O’Brien and Alpha company during the Vietnam war. He goes through and tell the reader what each character is carrying and also helps shed some light on each character's conscious thought. Some characters who dealt with these mental struggles really show to the reader some of Freud and Jung’s theories. These examples are Freud’s theory on a person's shadow, and Jung’s maiden and child archetype.…
The novel The Wars by Timothy Findley presents the reader with many normative assumptions that can be recognized as troubling. From the passage above an example of this would be masculinity and heroism. The reader learns that when Robert is in the brothel, his curiosity brings him to observing Taffler having sex with another man (Findley, 42-43). After what Robert has seen he is left distraught, because he decided Taffler is the person he wants as a mentor. However, this then challenges Roberts’s understanding on what it means to be masculine and a hero but living a promiscuous…
The narrative, “A Story of War and Change” by Reza Kiarash details the gruesome horror of the Iran-Iraq war through the experiences of the author as a paramedic within the Iranian army. What is immediately noticeable by the reader is how the author recounts his memory in short, staccato esque sentences. Evidence of such is provided when the author writes “ Yes, it is”. The lack of sentence sophistication helps immerse the reader into the atmosphere of the campaign the author is fighting in. As events escalate further within the story, the choppy sentences help create an aura of urgency for the reader.…
I Remember the Last War was a book written by Robert Hoffman. His book discusses his participation during the war. This excerpt from his story specifically talks about his experience in a military hospital and on the frontline. The reader will notice that the majority of Hoffman`s memories are awful. Three adjectives that describe his experience are depressing, traumatic and gory.…
Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War tells the story of a man’s demoralization during the Vietnam war and how it is associated with a refusal to any direct guilt for his own actions in that war. Throughout the book, you can sense the murderousness that comes from Caputo due to several reasons. Although, at the end of the book, he does not confess this murderousness urge that he experienced during his time in Vietnam. Overall, I believe that Philip Caputo was able to prove that he is not guilty and that he is a victim to the U.S. government and the U.S. military as well as the environment of Vietnam, and the relentlessness of combat training. Coming straight out of his own mouth, Caputo was able to prove compelling evidence that these forces developed…
Document I highlights the assassination of Austria’s archduke as the main instigation for war. This is done by portraying Sarajevo as a match that would set fire to a pile of logs. In turn, the logs are a symbol of the less immediate causes of war such as alliances, imperialism and militarism. Document F strengthens Document I’s stance on the relationship between nationalistic uprising and war by providing context on the discontent Pan-Slavic body.…
Year 8 Genre Novel Study- Tomorrow When the War Began Genre can be defined as a category of literature, such as the young adult and the dystopian genres that will be explored in this essay. An excellent example of the dystopian and young adult genres is the novel Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden, first published in 1993. This essay will discuss how effectively this novel fits into the young adult and dystopian genre. It will consider the various features of both the genres and discuss them with references to the specific examples taken from the book.…
"The Name Of War" - Jill Lepore In the developments in the book, Lepore clearly states that “King Phillip’s War was the defining moment” in early American history. What she means is that the war was mainly fought on the basis of the need to maintain cultural identity. The Native Americans fought hard to ensure that they kept their Indian ways of lives while the English colonialists also wanted to introduce their new ways of lives and make allies with the Indians. The English colonist majorly developed their American identity before and after the wars through triangulating between their English cultural modes of living and the Indian experiences.…
War has been a constant part of human history. Whether it was World War I or World War II, war has greatly affected all aspects of life. Soldiers, families, countries, and societies, have all suffered through these times. Ultimately, the effects of war are extremely detrimental. Timothy Findley’s masterpiece The Wars portrays the detrimental effects of war and how these effects are endured on a personal level, familial level, and a communal level.…
Research Journal Topic 3: No One Spared In a nutshell? Picture from: http://www.dakinarchives.net/iphoto/wwIcartoons/Desktop-Pages/Image5.html Identify the many groups of people devastated by WWI. Men Women Children…
When you fall, they say brush yourself off and try again. Nevertheless, like most things in life, to do so is easier said than done. Especially with a history such as those of the First Nations people. To recount such a history is beyond imagination, one dark and desolate; to try recount words such as torture… scorn… mockery… disdain…hatred are impeccable examples. Regardless of the animosity and malice directed at the First Nations, many discovered the power within themselves to overcome the horrors that were their lives, as well as to find the strength to move on.…
In the novel The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh, it explores the internal struggle of a veteran; he had fought in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The main character of the novel, Kien, participated in the war on the day that it broke out and resigned on the day that it ended. He survives through the nineteen years of intense violence in the warfare. Not only did he fight in the Vietnam War, but also he was fighting in the front lines throughout the war, which decrease his chance of surviving enormously. Some might argue that Kien acquires a special survival skill that allows him to survive the war, but I believe it is his role that enables him to survive.…