In recent news, there was a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. This catastrophe went down as the eighteenth school shooting of 2018, and students, along with their parents, were not happy about it. Students protested in Parkland by doing walk-outs and rallies against gun wiolence, and took the fight throughout the US. The innocent lives taken impacted the world, just like the innocent soldier’s lives taken in war. Writers try to put the reality of war into perspective by protesting as well. Writers protest war using imagery, irony, and structure.
When describing war, authors often try to paint a picture of horrific scenes including death and violence. This refers to imagery. Outlining detailed images in their writing helped them create an image in the reader’s mind, and make them feel what they themselves felt. Author Wilfred Owens useds …show more content…
For instance, Powers in The Yellow Birds uses a list to show how the narrator, John Bartle, perceives war and attempts to explain to his friends. Powers inputs “Or should I have said I wanted to die...isn’t any making up for killing women...shooting them more times then necessary to actually kill them...mother is so happy and proud...the animals made you sad...everything stinking like metal...curl up and die…(Document D). Powers creates a list that’s jumbled to show Bartle’s thoughts. This then depicts how after war, a soldier’s mental state can become stressed leading to suicide and disorders like PTSD. Another example would be O’Brien’s use of a list in The Things They Carried. The quote follows “...Henry Dobbins, who was a big man...Dave Jensen, who practiced field hygiene...Ted Lavender, who was scared…” (Document C). O’Brien describes different soldier’s to show the different characteristics of a person in war. He also uses parallel structure to emphasize the
When describing war, authors often try to paint a picture of horrific scenes including death and violence. This refers to imagery. Outlining detailed images in their writing helped them create an image in the reader’s mind, and make them feel what they themselves felt. Author Wilfred Owens useds …show more content…
For instance, Powers in The Yellow Birds uses a list to show how the narrator, John Bartle, perceives war and attempts to explain to his friends. Powers inputs “Or should I have said I wanted to die...isn’t any making up for killing women...shooting them more times then necessary to actually kill them...mother is so happy and proud...the animals made you sad...everything stinking like metal...curl up and die…(Document D). Powers creates a list that’s jumbled to show Bartle’s thoughts. This then depicts how after war, a soldier’s mental state can become stressed leading to suicide and disorders like PTSD. Another example would be O’Brien’s use of a list in The Things They Carried. The quote follows “...Henry Dobbins, who was a big man...Dave Jensen, who practiced field hygiene...Ted Lavender, who was scared…” (Document C). O’Brien describes different soldier’s to show the different characteristics of a person in war. He also uses parallel structure to emphasize the